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Chet Baker

Title: The Complete Milan Sessions (2CD)

Label: Solar Records

Cat No:4569876
Format:CD

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• The complete studio recordings made by the great Chet Baker in Milan, Italy, in 1959. This music is compiled here on one set for the first time ever, and is presented in the order in which it was recorded.

• As a bonus, this disc adds music made by Chet in Italy during the same period for film soundtracks.

• Chet Baker had a long and complicated relationship with Italy. It was a country where he was both imprisoned and adored. His first visit there took place in 1955, during his first successful European tour. It was during this tour that the quartet's pianist, the talented Dick Twardzik, tragically died in Paris from a heroin overdose. Baker was devastated, and following Twardzik's death – for which he felt some level of responsibility – the trumpeter submerged himself in the drug world and in a self destructive spiral which would last for the rest of his life.

• Personnel : Chet Baker, trumpet & vocals : with - Glauco Masetti (as), Gianni Basso (ts), Renato Sellani (p), Franco Cerri (b), Gene Victory (d), Giulio Libani (arr); Len Mercer's [aka Ezio Leoni] Orchestra, including : Mario Pezzotta (tb), Fausto Papetti (bar), Giulio Libani (p, cello, arr), Franco Cerry (b), Gene Victory (d) & others + large string section.

• 2 CD Set - Total Time: 134:19 min. - 31 tracks - Includes 16-page booklet.

Track Listing for The Complete Milan Sessions (2CD)
CD1
01 Lady Bird 4:49
02 Cheryl 5:02
03 Tune Up 5:20
04 Line For Lyons 7:43
05 Angel Eyes 4:34
06 When I Fall In Love 3:36
07 The Song Is You 2:32
08 Deep In A Dream 4:34
09 Goodbye 5:02
10 I Should Care 2:46
11 Autumn In New York 3:33
12 My Funny Valentine 5:04
13 Street Of Dreams 2:30
14 Violets For Your Furs 3:18
15 Forgetful 2:44

CD2
01 Pent-Up House 5:04
02 My Old Flame 4:59
03 Indian Summer 5:17
04 Look For The Silver Lining 4:37
05 Tensione 3:35
06 Alone In A Crowd (Aka I Soliti Ignoti) 4:53
07 Relaxin' With Chet 5:31
08 I Soliti Ignoti (Aka Lyda / Aka Movimenti Con Swing) 4:19
09 Tema D'amore (Aka Sentirsi Solo) 2:24
10 Smog (Introduzione E Finale) 5:52
11 Twilight In Los Angeles (Aka Smog Versione Strumentale) 6:12
12 Thinking Blues (Aka Hollywood Tonight) 4:28
13 Improvvisando In Blues 3:17
14 Motorizzazione 2:35
15 Furtivamente 3:48
16 Arrivederci 4:20

Reviews

Jazz Journal - Mark Gardner

Chet could still muster music of memorable intensity when the spirit moved him.

Jazz Rag - John Martin

These are some of the most animated performance I have heard from him and he also offers a few well realised vocals.

Record Collector - Charles Waring

the small group sessions with local musicians are pleasing. ****

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