Chet Baker: Milestones of a Jazz Legend

Tracklist

• CD 1: Grey December (1953), Chet Baker Quartet Featuring Russ Freeman (1953)
• 1
  Grey December
  3:41
• 2
  I Wish I Knew
  3:59
• 3
  Someone to Watch Over Me
  3:01
• 4
  This Is Always
  3:06
• 5
  Headline
  3:08
• 6
  Ergo
  3:09
• 7
  Bockhanal
  2:59
• 8
  A Dandy Line
  2:49
• 9
  Pro Defunctus
  3:27
• 10
  Little Old Lady
  2:49
• 11
  Moonlight Becomes You
  3:25
• 12
  Goodbye
  3:48
• 13
  Long Ago and Far Away
  2:12
• 14
  Happy Little Sunbeam
  2:40
• 15
  Moon Love
  3:15
• 16
  Bea’s Flat
  2:57
• 17
  No Ties
  2:56
• 18
  Band Aid
  2:43
• 19
  The Thrill Is Gone
  2:42
• 20
  All the Things You Are
  2:54
• CD 2: Chet Baker & Strings (1954), Chet Baker Sings and Plays with Bud Shank, Russ Freeman and Strings (1955)
• 1
  You Don't Know What Love Is
  3:29
  3.0 ★
• 2
  I’m Thru With Love
  2:36
• 3
  Love Walked In
  2:57
• 4
  You Better Go Now
  3:05
• 5
  I Married an Angel
  3:36
• 6
  Love
  2:32
• 7
  I Love You
  2:47
• 8
  What a Diff’rence a Day Made
  2:40
• 9
  Why Shouldn’t I
  3:34
• 10
  A Little Duet for Zoot and Chet
  2:35
• 11
  The Wind
  3:57
• 12
  Trickleydidlier
  2:37
• 13
  Let’s Get Lost
  3:43
  4.0 ★
• 14
  This Is Always
  3:07
• 15
  Long Ago and Far Away
  3:56
• 16
  Someone to Watch Over Me
  3:01
• 17
  Just Friends
  2:42
• 18
  I Wish I Knew
  3:59
• 19
  Daybreak
  2:40
• 20
  You Don’t Know What Love Is
  4:52
• 21
  Grey December
  3:41
• 22
  I Remember You
  3:15
• CD 3: Chet Baker Sings (1956)
• 1
  That Old Feeling
  3:02
• 2
  It’s Always You
  3:33
• 3
  Like Someone in Love
  2:24
• 4
  My Ideal
  4:21
• 5
  I’ve Never Been in Love Before
  4:27
• 6
  My Buddy
  3:18
• 7
  But Not for Me
  3:03
• 8
  Time After Time
  2:44
• 9
  I Get Along Without You Wery Well
  2:57
• 10
  My Funny Valentine
  2:18
  2.5 ★
• 11
  There Will Never Be Another You
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 12
  The Thrill Is Gone
  2:49
• 13
  I Fall in Love Too Easily
  3:19
• 14
  Look for the Silver Lining
  2:38
• CD 4: Chet Baker Quartet with Russ Freeman (1956), Chet Baker & Art Pepper "Playboys" (1957)
• 1
  Love Nest
  4:17
• 2
  Fan Tan
  5:41
• 3
  Summer Sketch
  4:37
• 4
  An Afternoon at Home
  5:11
• 5
  Say When
  5:02
• 6
  Lush Life
  4:55
• 7
  Amblin’
  7:12
• 8
  Hugo Hurwhey
  4:26
• 9
  For Minors Only
  3:59
• 10
  Minor Yours
  6:40
• 11
  Resonant Emotions
  5:40
• 12
  Tynan Time
  5:31
• 13
  Picture of Heath
  6:23
• 14
  For Miles and Miles
  4:47
• 15
  C.T.A.
  5:09
• CD 5: The James Dean Story (1957)
• 1
  Jimmy's Theme
  2:51
• 2
  The Search
  4:43
• 3
  Lost Love
  3:36
• 4
  People
  3:33
• 5
  The Movie Star
  3:34
• 6
  Fairmont, Indiana
  4:32
• 7
  Rebel at Work
  3:42
• 8
  Success and Then What
  3:55
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Let Me Be Loved
  4:09
• 10
  Hollywood
  5:03
• 11
  Let Me Be Loved (vocal)
  2:15
• CD 6: Chet Baker Sings It Could Happen to You (1958), Chet Baker With Fify Italian Strings (1959)
• 1
  Do It the Hard Way
  3:00
• 2
  I'm Old Fashioned
  5:05
• 3
  You're Driving Me Crazy
  2:55
• 4
  It Could Happen to You
  2:51
• 5
  My Heart Stood Still
  3:26
• 6
  The More I See You
  3:05
• 7
  Everything Happens to Me
  5:04
• 8
  Dancing on the Ceiling
  3:08
• 9
  How Long Has This Been Going On
  4:09
• 10
  Old Devil Moon
  2:57
  2.0 ★
• 11
  I Should Care
  2:44
• 12
  The Song Is You
  2:31
• 13
  Goodbye
  5:01
• 14
  Angel Eyes
  4:32
• 15
  Forgetful
  2:41
• 16
  Violets for Your Furs
  3:17
• 17
  When I Fall in Love
  3:35
• 18
  Autumn in New York
  3:30
• 19
  Street of Dreams
  2:27
• 20
  Deep in a Dream
  4:32
• CD 7: Chet Baker Sextet (1954/1957), Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace (1958)
• 1
  The Half Dozens
  2:21
• 2
  I'm Glad There Is You
  3:12
• 3
  Stella by Starlight
  3:53
• 4
  Tommyhawk
  3:39
• 5
  Little Man You've Had a Busy Day
  4:43
• 6
  Dot's Groovy
  4:33
• 7
  A Minor Benign
  4:17
• 8
  Ponder
  4:25
• 9
  Twenties Late
  5:39
• 10
  X
  4:33
• 11
  All or Nothing at All
  3:20
• 12
  Crazy She Calls Me
  4:10
• 13
  The Way You Look Tonight
  3:13
• 14
  This Is Always
  3:36
• 15
  When the Sun Comes Out
  4:03
• 16
  What Is There to Say
  3:39
• 17
  Everything I've Got Belongs to You
  2:41
• 18
  We Could Make Such Beautiful Music
  3:13
• 19
  It Might as Well Be Spring
  3:50
• 20
  Yesterdays
  4:59
• CD 8: Chet Baker in New York (1958), Chet (1959)
• 1
  Fair Weather
  6:56
• 2
  Polka Dots and Moonbeams
  7:58
• 3
  Hotel 49
  9:52
• 4
  Solar
  5:52
• 5
  Blue Thoughts
  7:35
• 6
  When Lights Are Low
  6:52
• 7
  Alone Together
  6:51
• 8
  How High the Moon
  3:35
• 9
  It Never Entered My Mind
  4:37
• 10
  'Tis Autumn
  5:14
• 11
  If You Could See Me Now
  5:13
• 12
  September Song
  3:02
• 13
  You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
  4:32
• CD 9: Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner & Loewe (1959), Chet Baker in Milan (1959)
• 1
  I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
  4:14
• 2
  I Could Have Danced All Night
  3:40
• 3
  The Heather on the Hill
  5:04
• 4
  On the Street Where You Live
  8:35
• 5
  Almost Like Being in Love
  4:51
• 6
  Thank Heaven for Little Girls
  4:34
• 7
  I Talk to the Trees
  5:50
• 8
  Lady Bird
  4:45
• 9
  Cheryl Blues
  4:59
• 10
  Tune Up
  5:18
• 11
  Line for Lyons
  7:46
• 12
  Pent Up House
  5:00
• 13
  Look for the Silver Lining
  4:34
• 14
  Indian Summer
  5:15
• 15
  My Old Flame
  4:57
• CD 10: Chet Is Back (1962)
• 1
  Well You Needn't
  6:22
• 2
  These Foolish Things
  4:55
• 3
  Barbados
  8:26
• 4
  Star Eyes
  6:58
• 5
  Over the Rainbow
  3:30
• 6
  Pent Up House
  6:52
• 7
  Ballata in Forma di Blues
  10:03
• 8
  Blues in the Closet
  7:42
• 9
  Little Girl
  4:17
• 10
  Time on My Hands
  4:33
• 11
  You and the Night and the Music
  4:07
• 12
  Show Me
  6:30

More by Chet Baker

Candy

Candy 1985

The Touch of Your Lips

The Touch of Your Lips 1980

Baker’s Holiday

Baker’s Holiday 1965

Chet Baker Sings

Chet Baker Sings 1954

Stan Meets Chet

Stan Meets Chet 1996

The Pacific Jazz Years

The Pacific Jazz Years 1994

Release credits

• Al Haig
  piano [1-6]
• Allan Emig
  engineer [1-12]
• Amedeo Tommasi
  piano [1-8]
• Art Pepper
  alto saxophone [9-12, 15]
• Benoît Quersin
  double bass [1-8]
• Bill Evans
  piano [9.2, 9.6, 9.6-7, 9.7, 8.7-13, 10.12]
• Bill Grauer, Jr.
  producer [6.1-10, 7.11-20]
• Bill Holman
  additional [3-7, 9-10], arranger [3-7, 9-10], conductor [3-7, 9-10], tenor saxophone [1-2, 4-10]
• Bob Corwin
  piano [1, 3-5, 5]
• Bob Gordon
  baritone saxophone [5-12]
• Bob Neel
  drums (drum set) [3.7-8, 3.10-11, 3.14, 2.13-22, 1.1-4, 1.15]
• Bobby Jaspar
  reeds [1-8]
• Bud Shank
  alto saxophone [5.1, 5.1-2, 5.2-3, 5.3-5, 5.5-6, 5.6, 5.8, 5.8-9, 5.9-10, 5.10, 2.6-8, 2.11], flute [2.6-8, 2.11, 2.14, 2.16, 2.18, 2.21, 5.1, 5.1-2, 5.2-3, 5.3-5, 5.5-6, 5.6, 5.8, 5.8-9, 5.9-10, 5.10, 1.1-4]
• Carl Perkins
  piano [15]
• Carl Perkins
  piano [9-12, 15]
• Carson Smith
  bass [1.13-20, 2.15], double bass [2.13, 2.17, 2.19-20, 2.22, 3.7-8, 3.10-11, 3.11, 3.14]
• Charlie Mariano
  alto saxophone [1-2, 4-6, 8-10]
• Chet Baker
  trumpet [2.1-22, 3.7-8, 3.10-11, 3.14, 7.11-20, 9.1-5, 9.5-6, 9.6-7, 9.7-12, 9.14-15, 4.1-4, 4.4-8, 4.8-12, 4.15, 10.1-8, 10.12, 1.1-20, 5.1-10, 6.1-12, 6.14-20, 8.1-13], vocal [6.1-10, 2.13-22, 3.7-8, 3.10-11, 3.14]
• Claude Williamson
  piano [1-10]
• Clifford Jarvis
  drums (drum set) [10.12, 9.1-5, 9.5-6, 9.6-7, 9.7]
• Connie Kay
  drums (drum set) [7-13]
• Corky Hale
  harp [1.1-4, 2.14, 2.16, 2.18, 2.21]
• Curtis Counce
  bass [9-12, 15], double bass [9-12, 15]
• Daniel Baumgarten
  producer [1-8]
• Daniel Humair
  drums (drum set) [1-8]
• Dannie Richmond
  drums (drum set) [3-4, 9]
• Don Fagerquist
  flute [1-2, 4-6, 8-10]
• Earl May
  bass [9.1-7, 10.12], double bass [10.12, 9.5-7]
• Ed Thigpen
  drums (drum set) [13-18, 20]
• Edgar Lustgarten
  cello [14, 16, 18, 21]
• Eleanor Slatkin
  cello [14, 16, 18, 21]
• Eudice Shapiro
  violin [1-12]
• Fausto Papetti
  baritone saxophone [11-12, 14-20]
• Felix Slatkin
  violin [1-12]
• Franco Cerri
  bass [11-12, 14-20], double bass [8-12, 14-15]
• Frank Campo
  arranger [21]
• Gene Voctory
  drums (drum set) [9.8-12, 9.14-15, 6.11-12, 6.14-20]
• George Kast
  violin [1-12]
• George Morrow
  bass [1-2, 5, 7-8]
• Gianni Basso
  tenor saxophone [9.8-12, 9.14-15, 6.11-12, 6.14-20]
• Giulio Libano
  arranger [8-12, 14-15]
• Glauco Masetti
  alto saxophone [6.11-12, 6.14-20, 9.8-12, 9.14-15]
• Herb Geller
  saxophone [5-12]
• Herbie Mann
  flute [9.1-5, 9.5-6, 9.6-7, 9.7, 10.12, 7.11-20, 8.7-13], tenor saxophone [9.1-7, 10.12]
• Herbie Steward
  alto saxophone [1-10]
• Jack Higgins
  engineer [7.11-20, 8.1-13], recording [6.1-10, 8.7]
• Jack Matthews
  mix [3]
• Jack Montrose
  arranger [5-12], tenor saxophone [5-12]
• Jacques Gasselin
  violin [1-12]
• James E. Bond
  double bass [8]
• Jean‐Pierre Chalbos
  engineer [1-8]
• Jimmie Burke
  bass [11-20]
• Joe Berle
  piano [11-20]
• Joe Mondragon
  bass [1-12], double bass [5-12]
• Johnny Griffin
  tenor saxophone [1, 3, 5]
• Johnny Mandel
  arranger [5.1-2, 5.8, 2.16], conductor [1-2, 8], orchestrator [1-2, 8]
• Johnny Pace
  vocal [11-20]
• Kenny Burrell
  guitar [7-13]
• Kenny Drew
  piano [1-10]
• Kurt Reher
  cello [14, 16, 18, 21]
• Larry Bunker
  drums (drum set) [13-20]
• Lawrence Marable
  drums (drum set) [3.8, 4.9-12, 4.15]
• Len Mercer
  arranger [11-12, 14-20], conductor [11-12, 14-20]
• Leroy Vinnegar
  double bass [1-8]
• Lou Kievman
  viola [1-12]
• Mario Pezzotta
  trombone [11-12, 14-20]
• Marty Paich
  arranger [14, 18]
• Mel Lewis
  drums (drum set) [1-10]
• Michael Cuscuna
  producer [1-8, 10, 12-19]
• Mike Pacheco
  bongos [1-2, 4-6, 8-10]
• Milt Bernhart
  trombone [1-2, 4-6, 8-10]
• Monty Budwig
  bass [1-10]
• Orrin Keepnews
  producer [9.1-7, 8.1-13, 6.5, 10.12, 7.11-20]
• Paul Chambers
  bass [8-9, 11-13], double bass [1-7, 7, 10, 12]
• Paul Robyn
  viola [1-12]
• Paul Shure
  violin [1-12]
• Pepper Adams
  baritone saxophone [10.12, 8.7-13, 9.1-5, 9.5-6, 9.6-7, 9.7, 5.1-2, 5.4-6, 5.8-10]
• Peter Littman
  drums (drum set) [8]
• Phil Urso
  tenor saxophone [9-12, 15]
• Philly Joe Jones
  drums (drum set) [7.11-12, 7.19, 6.1-2, 6.5-8, 6.10, 8.1-13]
• Ray Kramer
  cello [14, 16, 18, 21]
• Ray Linn
  trumpet [1-2, 4-6, 8-10]
• Red Mitchell
  bass [21], double bass [2.14, 2.16, 2.18, 1.1-4]
• Renato Sellani
  piano [8-12, 14-15]
• René Thomas
  guitar [1-8]
• Richard Bock
  producer [4.9-12, 4.15, 5.1-10, 2.1-22, 3.7-8, 3.10-11, 3.14, 1.1-20]
• Richie Kamuca
  tenor saxophone [1-2, 4-6, 8-10]
• Roy Friedman
  engineer [10.12, 9.1-7]
• Russ Freeman
  celesta [8], piano [3.7-8, 3.10-11, 3.14, 4.1-4, 4.4-8, 4.8, 1.6-8, 1.10-20, 2.1-22]
• Sam Cytron
  violin [1-12]
• Sam Jones
  bass [3-4, 6, 9-10]
• Shelly Manne
  drums (drum set) [2.1-12, 1.5-12, 4.1-4, 4.4-8, 4.8]
• Victor Gottlieb
  cello [1-12]
• Zoot Sims
  alto saxophone [9.1-4, 9.4-5, 9.5-6, 9.6-7, 9.7, 10.12], tenor saxophone [9.1-5, 9.5-6, 9.6-7, 9.7, 10.12, 2.1-3, 2.5, 2.9-10, 2.12]
• [unknown]
  strings [11-12, 14-20]
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  Chet Baker: Milestones of a Jazz Legend

  10x CD
  6 November 2015