In Tokyo

Artist: Chet Baker
Label: Evidence
Category: Music

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Rating:

6 reviews
Sales Rank: 18114

Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

MPN: 22158
UPC: 730182215823
EAN: 0730182215823
ASIN: B0000014N1

Release Date: March 11, 1998
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Tracks:

Disc 1

•	Stella by Starlight
•	For Minors Only
•	Almost Blue
•	Portrait in Black and White
•	My Funny Valentine

Disc 2

•	Four
•	Arborway
•	I'm a Fool to Want You
•	Seven Steps to Heaven
•	For All We Know
•	Broken Wing

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Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

JAZZ GENIUS AT HIS BEST- A G A I N !! April 11, 2004
lale krale (EUROPA)
This double CD`s set, approved, that Chet Baker, going BETTER AND BETTER , through years.Fantastic performans, and one of the VERY BEST JAZZ ALBUM , E V E R recorded , by anybody.
TRULY MASTERPIECE !!!!!!!

5 out of 5 stars

Should be in every Baker fan's collection January 27, 2003
Bill G. (Middlebury ,CT)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I was one of those Chet Baker fans who only bought his early recordings. A few attempts to give his later years a try had me back at the used-CD bin, making a deposit.This Tokyo recording, made in the last year of his life, shows that he still had it...big time. His level of playing seems to be inversely related to his physical appearance of that last year. This "living ghost" of Chet sounds strong and clear, lyrical; at times,very fast, and still with that great sense of phrasing. His vocals are surprizingly good.The quality of the sound in this live recording is very good. Also, Harold Danko is outstanding.

5 out of 5 stars

Fantastic - a must-have! November 3, 2002
Thorsten Overgaard (Denmark)
This is an awsome album which also have good sound quality. It ranks as the best album together with "His Last Concert."

5 out of 5 stars

One of Chet's best albums September 2, 2001
helmut stekl (Vienna, Austria)
This is a truely great jazz album. Chet made quite a few albums which suffer from bad sound or bad playing (either by him due to drugs or inferior sidemen). Here everything falls into place. The sound is great, Chet is supported by a very sensitive, inventive trio and is in top form himself. There is a companion album to this and if you like Chet Baker at all both are an absolute MUST for you.
Chet himself thought that his playing got better with the years - unlike those critics who would have us believe that everything he did after Mulligan was not worth listening to. I agree with Chet and this album (recorded, I think, in the year of his death) bears witness to the fact that this was one of the great trumpet players of all time.

3 out of 5 stars

Chet Baker's last pleasant surprise February 23, 2000
rash67 (USA)
Chet Baker's last years were, sadly, littered with mediocre or negligent performances. He frequently sounded as if he was intoxicated and sang so off-key that it was like fingernails on a blackboard.

So this CD, one of his last, comes as a very pleasant surprise. Chet sounds straight, plays well, ballads and bebop, plays tight arrangements and actually sings on-key most of the time.

If you had written off Chet Baker's last decade this one will surprise you.

This CD set would have attracted a lot more attention if each CD had been released separately, the high price of this late set made me wary. But not to worry, both are well worth the listen.

by MY rating system this CD gets 3 1/2 stars for a performance better than most of Chet's work. END

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