Chet Baker in Tokyo
Chet Baker in Tokyo | |
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Live album by Chet Baker | |
Released | 1987 |
Recorded | June 14, 1987 |
Venue | Hitomi Memorial Hall, Showa Women's University, Tokyo, Japan |
Genre | Cool Jazz, West Coast Jazz |
Length | 1:55:14 |
Label | King Records (Japan); Paddle Wheel; Evidence Music |
Producer | Yoichi Nakao |
Chet Baker in Tokyo is a live album by jazz trumpeter and singer Chet Baker, recorded at Showa Women's University's Hitomi Memorial Hall. Released only eleven months before his death, it has been hailed as, "A glorious moment in Chet Baker's twilight."[1]
Reception
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John Vinocur of The New York Times praised the album, saying:[1]
The performances are remarkable because they take in, at the highest level, everything that people said Chet could do – play ballads with almost painful, poetic eloquence – and what many said he could not: blow hard and tough enough so as to make the trumpet sound its essence.
Rick Anderson of AllMusic said the album "shows him to have still been in complete control of his musical faculties, playing not just beautifully and well, but with energy and even speed despite his deteriorating health."[2]
Track listing
Source:[2]
Disc one:
- "Stella by Starlight" – 10:50
- "For Minors Only" – 7:40
- "Almost Blue" – 7:53
- "Portrait in Black and White" – 15:46
- "My Funny Valentine" – 13:14
Disc two:
- "Four" – 7:28
- "Arborway" – 14:00
- "I'm A Fool to Want You" – 11:22
- "Seven Steps to Heaven" – 7:56
- "For All We Know" – 8:57
- "Broken Wing" – 10:08
Personnel
Musicians
- Chet Baker – trumpet & vocals
- Harold Danko – piano
- Hein Van Der Geyn – acoustic bass
- John Engels – drums
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Production
- Yoichi Nakao – Producer
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References
- ^ a b Vinocur, John (2008-02-22). "A glorious moment in Chet Baker's twilight". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
- ^ a b c "Chet Baker in Tokyo – Chet Baker | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
- ^ a b "MY FUNNY VALENTINE CHET BAKER IN TOKYO". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
External links
- Live performance
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- Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman (1953)
- Grey December (1953)
- West Coast Live (1953-54 [1997])
- Jazz at Ann Arbor (1954)
- The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker (1954)
- Chet Baker Sings (1954)
- Chet Baker Sings and Plays (1955)
- Chet Baker in Europe (1955)
- Chet Baker & Crew (1956)
- Chet Baker Big Band (1956)
- Playboys (1956)
- Quartet: Russ Freeman/Chet Baker (1956)
- Theme Music from "The James Dean Story" (1956 [1957])
- Embraceable You (1957)
- Pretty/Groovy (1953-1957 [1958])
- A Taste of Tequila (1966)
- Hats Off (1966)
- Quietly There (1966)
- Double-Shot (1966)
- Into My Life (1966)
- In the Mood (1966)
- (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You (1958)
- Chet Baker in New York (1958)
- Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace (1958)
- Chet (1959)
- Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959)
- Chet Baker in Milan (1959)
- Chet Baker with Fifty Italian Strings (1959)
- Oh You Crazy Moon (1978 [2003])
- Peace (1982)
- Strollin' (1985)
- Witch Doctor (1953)
- Chet Baker & Strings (1954)
- Stan Meets Chet (1958)
- Chet Is Back! (1962)
- The Most Important Jazz Album of 1964/65 (1964)
- I/We Had a Ball (1964)
- Baker's Holiday (1965)
- Baby Breeze (1965)
- Double-Shot (1966)
- Albert's House (1969)
- Blood, Chet and Tears (1970)
- In Concert (with Lee Konitz, 1974 [1982])
- She Was Too Good to Me (1974)
- Once Upon a Summertime (1977 [1980])
- You Can't Go Home Again (1977)
- The Best Thing for You (1977 [1989])
- Live at Nick's (1978 [1987])
- Ballads for Two (with Wolfgang Lackerschmid) (1979)
- The Touch of Your Lips (1979)
- All Blues (with Rachel Gould) (1979)
- Chet Baker / Wolfgang Lackerschmid (with Wolfgang Lackerschmid) (1979 [1980])
- Daybreak (1979 [1980])
- Rendez-Vous (1979 [1980])
- No Problem (1979 [1980])
- This Is Always (1979 [1982])
- Someday My Prince Will Come (1979 [1983])
- Studio Trieste (1982)
- Out of Nowhere (1982 [1991])
- Crystal Bells (1983)
- Line for Lyons (with Stan Getz) (1983)
- Everything Happens to Me (with Kirk Lightsey) (1983 [1984])
- At Capolinea (1983 [1984])
- Mr. B (1983 [1984])
- The Improviser (1983 [1984])
- Diane (1985)
- Chet's Choice (1985)
- Candy (1985)
- Blues for a Reason (1985)
- Chet Baker Plays Vladimir Cosma (1985)
- There'll Never Be Another You (with Philip Catherine) (1985 [1997])
- Chet Baker Sings Again (1985 [1986])
- As Time Goes By (1986)
- When Sunny Gets Blue (1986)
- Cool Cat (1986 [1989])
- Chet Baker in Tokyo (1987)
- Reunion with Chet Baker (with Gerry Mulligan, 1957)
- A Sign of the Times (with Joe Pass, 1965)
- Carnegie Hall Concert (with Gerry Mulligan, 1974 [1975])
- Silence (with Charlie Haden , 1987)
- "Freeway"
- "Chetty's Lullaby"
- "Motivo su raggio di luna"
- "So che ti perderò"
- "Il mio domani"
- Hell's Horizon (1955)
- Howlers in the Dock (1960)
- Let's Get Lost (1988)
- Born to Be Blue (2015)
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