Chet Baker Sings (Blue Note Essentials Series) LP TSOV-00064 Huw Lloyd-Langton

Huw Lloyd-Langton

It's a loose concept album about the modern south

but much of the pleasure in 10000 comes from it's guitar textures

The key to their success was that Higgins tuned his drums to fit with the organ's bass sound which

Chet Baker Sings (Blue Note Essentials Series) LP TSOV-00064 Huw Lloyd-LangtonThere are several Chet Baker albums with the title Chet Baker Sings, but this one recorded for Pacific Jazz in 1954 and 1956 is the original, and arguably, the best. The album features Chets indelible vocals and sterling trumpet playing with two different quartet line ups both featuring pianist Russ Freeman on a set of classic standards that he made his own including My Funny Valentine, That Old Feeling, and I Fall In Love Too Easily. Blue Note