CHET BAKER - Chet Baker Sings (Blue Note Essentials) LIZ LAWRENCE and grind of four dudes

and grind of four dudes and auxiliary saxophonist Steven Mackay bent on breaking into another dimension — emerge with gripping presence

Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit

but it’s also the most deeply realist: the stage is set not with dramatic overtures but the backdrop of the minutiae and repetition of daily acts

The album will be released on 24th January 2025 via Young Recordings

both personally and professionally

CHET BAKER - Chet Baker Sings (Blue Note Essentials) LIZ LAWRENCE and grind of four dudesThere are several Chet Baker albums with the title Chet Baker Sings, but this one, recorded for Pacific Jazz in 1954 and 1956, is the original and, arguably, the best. The album features Chets indelible vocals and sterling trumpet playing with two different quartet line ups, both featuring pianist Russ Freeman, on a set of classic standards that he made his own, including My Funny Valentine, That Old Feeling, and I Fall In Love Too Easily. Blue Note