Few musicians have embodied the romantic, and ultimately tragic, jazz figure as totally as Chesney "Chet" Baker. Chet is Chet Baker's classic 1959 Riverside album featuring jazz legends Bill Evans, Kenny Burrell, Herbie Mann and Pepper Adams.
Chet's voice is tender and beautiful, and at the same time his phrasing always swings and surprises. Initially issued as a 10- inch Long Play containing eight songs, the success of this album led to it being reissued adding songs of other later sessions.
This set combines some fiery instrumentals along with some of Chet Baker's best vocals- among them the Rodgers & Hart song "My Funny Valentine", which would become a theme song for Baker over the course of his extended career.
BREAKING POINT Recorded in May 1964, shortly after Hubbard left Blakey's Jazz Messengers, the quintet - with James Spaulding, Ronnie Mathews, Eddie Khan, and Joe Chambers - moves assuredly from free-form playing and modal jazz to the blues and balladry.
