Chet Baker Sings (LP) To The 5 Boroughs and the Miles Davis collaboration

and the Miles Davis collaboration ‘Flute Song/Hotel Me’ — with inspired interpretations such as Kurt Weill’s ‘The Barbara Song’

before being exhumed and released

featuring Oliver Wakeman’s keyboard parts from the original writing sessions

where the Stones played their first gigs

Florida where Eric lived while recording the album

Chet Baker Sings (LP) To The 5 Boroughs and the Miles Davis collaborationThere are several Chet Baker albums with the title Chet Baker Sings, but this one recorded for Pacific Jazz in 1954 and 1956 is the original, and arguably, the best. The album features Chets indelible vocals and sterling trumpet playing with two different quartet line ups both featuring pianist Russ Freeman on a set of classic standards that he made his own including My Funny Valentine, That Old Feeling, and I Fall In Love Too Easily. For the first