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. Baby Breeze
CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Chet Baker
Release Date March 08, 1999
In interviews as late as 1987 Chet listed this album as one of his favourites, and who would doubt his judgment? I think it's his best album from the sixties, a perfect showcase for Chet's varied talents. Whether you like the fleet player of fast bop (or post-bop, as is the case here), the lyrical trumpeter or the sensitive balladeer, it's all here. The uptempo tunes sound very "sixties" and modern and Chet's lines are firm, hard-driven and edgy but he never loses his human touch. As a vocalist Chet has never sounded better. He sings with fire, conviction and at times almost unbearable tenderness - "you're mine, you" and "The touch of your lips" send chills up your spine - and his rendition of Mel Tormé's "Born ... Read More:
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