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Baker's Holiday – Chet Baker Plays & Sings Billie Holiday

CD (Item 671690) Verve, 1965 — Condition: Used
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Chet Baker serves up a tribute to Billie Holiday, but in a set that's very different than you might expect – very much a Chet Baker album overall, and one that's done at a time when Chet was doing a lot less vocalizing on record! Arrangements are by Jimmy Mundy, but the group's somewhat lean overall – with work from Seldon Powell and a few other players on reeds – plus Hank Jones on piano, Everett Barksdale on guitar, Richard Davis on bass, and Connie Kay on drums – and Chet blows flugelhorn throughout, an instrument that provides a nice change from his more familiar phrasing on trumpet. Titles include "There Is No Greater Love", "Easy Living", "Travelin' Light", "Crazy She Calls Me", "That Old Devil Called Love", and "Don't Explain".  © 1996-2025, Dusty Groove, Inc.
(US EmArcy/Polygram pressing.)

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