This may be the best album that Chet ever made. I don’t take that statement very lightly because I take my jazz very heavily.The second tune is called “Deep in a dream,” which is also the name of the definitive book on Chets’ life called “Deep in a Dream:The long night of Chet Baker” by James Gavin which is “almost unbearably vivid…”; I call it unbearably tragic. At that time, he beat Miles Davis in the jazz polls (Downbeat).
Chet was a natural musician; hardly practiced, which is told to us by Jack Sheldon, another jazz trumpeter who lived in Europe with Chet, & got into singing with his baby voice quite by accident.
If you love the trumpet as much as I do, you must have this album. It was made many years ago during a live concert, but the sound, after being digitally remastered, etc. is amazingly good.I hope you will get this album. This is the reason I write so many reviews; I want to share beauty with others.
I thank you for reading my humble words.
