Chet baker –

Shine

Limited double hand-numbered 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Chet Baker showed with his music that little bit of dark substance that exists in the human being - the shadow side - just as very few other jazz musicians have been able to do. However, such a reading that looks for traces of anguish and self-destruction in every note - and which has also been translated into a couple of films - has ended up overshadowing something very important: namely, that Chet Baker was a top-notch jazz musician, the creator of a unique and personal poetics, an interpreter who did not wallow in his own torments but who also knew how to take less introspective paths, including a superfine and very lively swing. In this final phase of his career, Baker often liked to have groups without drums with him because, in addition to allowing him to maintain a muffled volume in his singing and trumpet playing, the drumless situation guaranteed him greater freedom. Only the double bass player was left to keep time, a role here entrusted to a solid Knauer. In Ferrara, a sensitive French pianist, Michel Graillier, took the stage; in those years he was looking for a synthesis between the energy of McCoy Tyner and the harmonic language of Bill Evans. Finally, the presence of a piano allowed Stilo to limit the use of the other harmonic instrument, the guitar, in favor of the flute.

Country of Pressing	US
Artist	Chet Baker
Released	2026
Music Genre	Blues and Pop / Rock
Label	RED RECORDS
Condition	New
UPC	8054154650729
SKU	al-8054154650729

1.1 Night Bird
1.2 Conception
1.3 Almost Blue
1.4 I'm a Fool to Want You
2.1 You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to
2.2 But Not for Me
2.3 In a Sentimental Mood
2.4 Just Friends