Chet Baker - It Could Happen To You - Chet Baker Sings flac album

Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You is an album by jazz trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker. It follows a formula similar to two other Baker albums, Chet Baker Sings (1954) and Chet Baker Sings and Plays with Bud Shank, Russ Freeman & Strings (recorded in 1955, released in 1964) in which he updates existing standards in a hipper, jazzier fashion

This can be traced to Baker's earliest sides on Bock's . based Pacific Jazz label. This album is the result of Baker's first sessions for the independent Riverside label. The Chet Baker Quartet featured on Chet Baker Sings: It Could Happen to You includes Kenny Drew (piano), Sam Jones (bass), and Philly Joe Jones (drums).

Chet Baker appears by arrangement with World-Pacific Records. Unlike previous releases by 1958 Baker's voice had reached a stunning maturity and his trumpet playing is also at a near peak in quality.

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This album has an average beat per minute of 121 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 75/169 BPM). See its BPM profile at the bottom of the page. Tracklist It Could Happen to You: Chet Baker Sings. Recent albums by Chet Baker. Early Chet (Chet Baker In Germany 1955-1959). Chet Baker in Paris: The Complete Original Recordings. The Complete Legendary Sessions.

Chet Baker had a distinctive trumpet style that even Miles admired, but many may not know he was also quite accomplished as a singer. Judging by the cover (Baker’s good looks were always prominently featured on his releases), the A&R people at Riverside saw an opportunity to market Baker as a romantic crooner along the lines of Frank Sinatra or Nat King Cole. This is surprising, considering his fragile, colorless vocals certainly don’t immediately call to mind someone who could sing at all. Nevertheless, Baker’s haunting vocal delivery remains one of the most underrated pleasures in jazz. Few singers also double on a horn, but Baker shows how successfully it could be done, blowing and singing both complementing each other as part of a compelling conception. Newly remastered, It Could Happen To You is clearly a vocal jazz classic.

Nothing makes a home cozier than Chet Baker, and this album is downright dreamy.

Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the 1950s, particularly for albums featuring his vocals (Chet Baker Sings, It Could Happen to You). Jazz historian Dave Gelly described the promise of Baker's early career as "James Dean, Sinatra, and Bix, rolled into on. His well-publicized drug habit also drove his notoriety and fame. Stan Meets Chet is an album recorded in 1958 by saxophonist Stan Getz with trumpeter Chet Baker which was originally released on the Verve label. The More I See You. "The More I See You" is a popular song composed by Harry Warren, with lyrics by Mack Gordon, and was originally sung by Dick Haymes in the 1945 film Diamond Horseshoe.