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Quietly There |
Into My Life
Chet Baker and The Carmel Strings
Here are two forgettable commercial albums with The Carmel Strings. This
is easy listening "elevator music", and in no way resembles jazz. But if
you read John Tynan's (he was a writer for DownBeat Jazz Magazine) liner
notes on Quietly There, he evokes the names of Miles Davis and Stan Getz
is if this were a legitimate jazz recording. On both of the Carmel Strings
recordings, there are a few pretty ballads like
"The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men" that have some
good solos, but they are buried in heavy strings and cooing singers. Most of the
time,
the up-beat tunes can be quite laughable. Chet's playing is workman-like,
although you can occasionally hear him throw in a nice little solo to try to
save the song.
I have heard that while in the Italian prison, Chet's jailors
made him play "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" over and over again until he
was sick of it. I guess his punishment continued as he recorded it with
the Carmel Strings.
These LP's were issued on Dick Bock's "World Pacific" label, an offshoot of
the Pacific Jazz.. They have never been issued on CD.
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Chet Baker - Flugelhorn
The Carmel Strings
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Quietly There
World Pacific WP-1847 or WPS-21847
Recorded June 1966, Los Angeles
1. Early Autumn -
2:43
2. I Left My Heart In San Francisco - 2:29
3. Forget Him - 2:41
4 .Christmas Song - 3:05
5 .Quietly There - 2:38
6 .Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most - 2:52
7. Stranger On The Shore - 2:39
8. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
- 2:35
9. The More I See You - 2:48
10. No More Blues - 2:24
11. Message To Michael - 2:42
12. (You're My) Soul And Inspiration - 2:38
Into My Life
World Pacific WP-1858 or WPS-21858
Recorded October 1966, Los Angeles
1. A Man And A Woman (Un Homme Et Une Femme) - 2:10
2. Guantamerra - 3:05
3. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - 3:04
4. The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men - 4:09
5. Here, There And Everywhere - 2:45
6. Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White - 2:50
7. Serenata (Parish/Anderson) - 1:50
8. More And More Amor - 2:59
9. All - 2:56
10. If He Walked Into My Life - 4:03
11. Trains And Boats And Planes - 2:22
12. Got To Get You Into My Life - 2:15
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