You Can't Go Home Again
The Best Thing For You
Chet Baker Chet
holds his own in a jazz-fusion setting. Much of this recording seems
dated today, as Moog synthesizers permeate
many of the arrangements. Fans of his more traditional sound will like the
quintet
tracks with Desmond, who died just months after these recordings. Verve
fills the 2-CD set with with too many unnecessary alternate takes.
That, combined with the sometimes jarring switch from jazz-fusion
to a traditional jazz combo, make this a CD you will not want to
listen to straight from beginning to end. However, you will find a
few jewels here that is some of the best music Chet ever recorded.
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Chet Baker - Trumpet, Vocals
Harold Danko - Piano
Jon Burr - Bass
Ben Riley - Drums ______________________
Verve
314 543 516-2
Recorded February 16, 21 & 22, 1977
and May 13, 1977, New York
1-4 are from You Can't Go Home Again
5-9, 12 are from The Best Thing For You All other tracks previously unreleased ______________________
1. Love for Sale - 13:03
2. Un Poco Loco - 9:26 3. You Can't Go Home Again - 5:47
4. El Morro - 14:18
5. The Best Thing for You - 4:20
6. I'm Getting Sentimental over You/You've Changed
- 6:05
7. Oh, You Crazy Moon - 3:38
8. How Deep Is the Ocean?- 5:49
9. If You Could See Me Now - 4:43
10. You Can't Go Home Again - 6:31
11. I'm Getting Sentimental over You/You've Changed [Alternate] - 6:08
12. El Morro [Alternate] - 17:13
13. Out of Our Hands - 10:36
14. Broken Wing - 5:21
15. Paradox - 6:09
16. Blues - 7:59
17. The Best Thing for You [Alternate] - 4:28
18. How Deep Is the Ocean? [Alternate] - 5:45
19. If You Could See Me Now [Alternate] - 5:02
20. El Morro [incomplete] - 13:13
Chet
holds his own in a jazz-fusion setting. Much of this recording seems
dated today, as Moog synthesizers permeate
many of the arrangements. Fans of his more traditional sound will like the
quintet
tracks with Desmond, who died just months after these recordings. Verve
fills the 2-CD set with with too many unnecessary alternate takes.
That, combined with the sometimes jarring switch from jazz-fusion
to a traditional jazz combo, make this a CD you will not want to
listen to straight from beginning to end. However, you will find a
few jewels here that is some of the best music Chet ever recorded.