Sun, 19 Oct 2008

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The last great concert

I've been on a Chet Baker kick lately, and this, his last concert recorded just two weeks before his death in 1988, captures him at his musical height in the full mature perfection of his trumpet and vocal sound.

And this 1959 album shows him at his best before his heroin-fueled decline and fall in the 60s and 70s.

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