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Chet Baker Sings and Plays With Bud Shank, Russ Freeman Strings
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Chet Baker Sings and Plays With Bud Shank, Russ Freeman Strings
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With the growing popularity of
's first vocal album,
,
producer
wanted to capitalize on both facets of his young star's abilities. Hence, the trumpeter turned vocalist entered the studio in 1955 with both his quartet featuring pianist
and an expanded sextet including bassist
on flute, and various string players. The resulting album,
, helped set in stone the image of
as the
world's matinee idol and icon of '50s West Coast
. His laid-back style -- a mix of '30s crooner and
' nonet recordings -- appealed in its immediacy to a
public tiring of the hyper, athletic musicality of
. Similarly, his plaintive, warm trumpet sound was the more sensitive antidote to such brassy kings as
and
. Others artists had performed many of these
before, but as with
on
, tracks like
became definitively associated with
for the rest of his career.
are not only the two most important albums of
's career, but are classics of
. [The 2004
reissue of
includes an EP version of
not included on the original album.] ~ Matt Collar