Chet

Yes 5 Don't remember if "Chet Baker Sings" has been put on here. If not I would be a little surprised that you chose this one instead. Exactly what I needed a sunday morning though.

Very relaxing jazz music

Never heard of this fellow but he can blow a mean trumpet.

It’s jazz! And I always add any decent jazz album to a big playlist of jazz albums so technically I’ve added it to my collection which as you know means this gets five booms

Awesome album. Really set the mood. Love Chet.

Trumpet instrumental

Ahhh something elegant and classic to cleanse my palette! This music is a sublime escape to a different time, lightyears away from where we exist now in humanity. The artistry is undeniable and the influence is legendary. Yes yes yes! Thank you to the person who put Chet into the mix.

Jin my humble opinion azz albums are a bit of a rabbit hole for this list because it's a whole other world of music. Still, there's no question that this is a five and a great listen. Thanks for nominating it.

I’ve heard of Chet Baker. Some nice jazz trumpet here! I loved it!

Wonderful. Thank you!

Top notch!

Wonderful! I loved this very much and am so happy to become more familiar with Chet Baker's music.

My first 5 star user submitted album. Just classy and elegant jazz music.

This is good, cool, and relaxing as all get out. The Time On My Hands rendition is a good one.

An amazing album from a legend of Jazz.

This is a top Jazz album. Chet has done some truly spectacular records.

Mood music

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Alone together

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pure gold

Damn, what a lineup.

Gorgeous, smooth and melodic. Dripping with the cool jazz style. Excellent suggestion, thank you very much indeed.

I could just paste in any of a half dozen of my micro-reviews of jazz albums: I like jazz but don't feel like I have the sophistication to really "get" it. I liked this. Guy had a tough life. Heroin is the worst.

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Jazz canónico trompetero. Me ha gustado. Un 4.

Jazz is not typically my musical genre of choice and yet, I enjoyed this.

Chet Baker is a fantastic jazz singer. This album is none of that. I's about an even better jazz trumpeter.

I actually loved this

Relaxing jazz trumpet. An nice but mournful way to spend 42 minutes. Rating: 3.5 Playlist track: How High the Moon Date listened: 04/12/24

Really beautiful album, subtle and soothing jazz. Don't know anything about Chet Baker but I dig this. "September Song," ironically, is going into my Christmas playlist. Perfect for that. Great choice, whoever picked this one! Favorite tracks: September Song, Alone Together, It Never Entered My Mind, If You Could See Me Now, Time on my Hands. Album art: Almost startling clarity to this photo, seems like something that could've been released in the last year or two, but nope: 1959. Looking like a lonesome cowboy. 4/5

Always happy when we can get more jazz on this list. I'm not sure I've heard Chet before but I think I've heard his name. This was very classic and relaxing. Great to wake up to on a cold winter day.

The quintessential sultry, smoky, noir lounge music. I just imagined I was Humphrey bogart solving the mystery of a missing New York socialite and it fit the vibe perfectly

This is some great jazz. Chet baker had a wild life and there must be something about making jazz that is super depressing because so many of them had troubled lives but made great music. This is the type of jazz I could listen to for hours just cool well played horns. Very nice addition and glad I got to hear something new that’s good. 8.3/10

A restrained soulful jazz horn. Reall enjoyed the listen.

Great Jazz album up there with the best jazz albums on the original list.

Jazz was one of the genres that had a surface level understanding in the original list. This is a great album that should have been there. My personal rating: 4/5 My rating relative to the list: 4/5 Should this have been included on the original list? Yes. Jazz was done poorly.

More jazz? Yes please 🙏

Very chilled and cool, possibly the most relaxing album I have had so far. Only slight oddity was one track sounding a bit like the "Coronation Street" theme song! Well worth inclusion on the list, maybe in place of a more 'challenging' jazz album.

If there one thing completing this project has solidified for me, it’s that I don’t like Jazz Trumpet. I find it shrill and stressful. But then here’s comes Chet with his beautiful mellow tones to completely shit that theory right out of the water. Nice work Chet.

It's a damn shame that Chet Baker, the prince of cool, never ended up on the list. If he were, it should either be his first studio album Chet Baker Sings (if only for My Funny Valentine) or this one. Chet lacks his soulful melancholic vocals on this, but makes up for it with a masterclass in instrumental mood. I like to think that Chet was made for early mornings, just as the sun is rising and the streets start to come alive. I'm sold. CONTENDER FOR THE LIST: Absolutely.

Quality trumpet jazz.

Hard to evaluate, but I liked it

I love a good jazz trumpet, and this definitely qualifies, but I could use some more bop.

I really enjoyed this one. My appreciation of jazz has been growing with age. I’ve enjoyed what I have heard from him before and this added to my appreciation.

Smooth. Maybe to a fault, but smooooooth... One of the most mentioned Chet Baker albums, with its main legendary performer here exclusively playing the trumpet and not singing. Listening to this next to the swimming pool felt cool and classy. The personnel is stellar: Pepper Addams gently stirring things a little with the deeper tones of his baritone sax ; Herbie Mann's suave flute, as sinuous and sensual as young starlet's silhouette, Kenny Burrell and Bill Evans' always precise contributions on electric guitar and piano ; Philly Joe Jones' understated but pivotal drumming ; and Paul Chambers' perfect mastery of the bass -- always love when that man used his bow, so I wish he had done that more on this LP than only on "You And The Night And The Music (the album's closer, and one of its best cuts)... But that's OK, the way Paul snaps his fingers on those strings everywhere else still does the trick. A bunch of tracks (including opener "Alone Together" and "It Never Entered My Mind") do convey iconic undertones. I also really enjoyed the long-winded slow jam CD bonus track "Early Morning Mood". Let's be honest here, with everything that has gone on since 1958 in the field of jazz and even beyond, this record maybe feels a little too one-note and "by the book" -- like a lot of records from the fifties. But it's still very good. 3.5/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums, rounded up to 4. 8.5/10 for more general purposes (5 + 3.5). Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ----- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 36 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 45 (including this one) Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 91 ---- Émile, j'ai enfin deux minutes pour te donner de nouvelles réponses. J'ai eu une otite carabinée pendant une semaine après mon retour de séjour estival. Pas pratique pour ce générateur. Mais par chance, je connaissais bien la plupart des suggestions durant cette période. Et sinon, j'ai enfin fini ma retranscription d'interview... Ravi de voir que Ogden's Nut Gone Flake soit tombé durant cette période pour toi. Là aussi, tu connaissais bien, et ça se sent. Ça m'a donné envie de réécouter en lisant ta review. Je réponds à deux de tes anciennes questions : Mon choix d'album pour la users list était le Homogenic de Björk. Il y avait tant d'autres choix possibles mais je me suis arrêté sur celui-là. Je sais déjà que t'es pas un grand fan (vu tes retours ici), mais dans ma review -- que tu pourras certainement reconnaître vu mes "codes" si tu recherches la page en ligne -- j'explique simplement que deux des quatre disques de l'Islandaise choisis par Dimery sont litigieux et que donc mon choix est plus un "course-correcting" qu'un ajout de 5e disque. En gros, c'est pas parce que tu es un grand fan que tu peux pas avoir le sens des priorités. Je suis tombé sur ce générateur parce qu'il m'a été suggéré par un parfait inconnu dans un commentaire Facebook. Je trainais pas mal sur des groupes FB à propos de la musique à l'époque, avec beaucoup d'australiens dedans (et je crois bien que c'est un Aussie qui m'a suggéré la chose). Voilà, c'est aussi simple que ça. Et ça a eu des conséquences pendant plus de trois ans ! On vit dans un grand village global maintenant, tu vois Faut vraiment que j'écoute ta sélection, et aussi peut-être réagir à ton message plus récents... J'essaie de faire ça avant la fin de l'été ! Enjoy the summer!

A decent jazz album, I wasn’t familar with Baker’s work before this so it was nice to put some tunes to the name. The instrumentals were flawless, just wish this had a bit more bite/personality to give it some flair.

It is a very enjoyable jazz album, but it is still just music, which makes it a kind of lounge score for film or TV, so I cannot classify it as an album with performers. 2.5 stars.

It's nice, but feels like elevator music. 3 stars.

Pleasant as background music during work.

Ok

It's really nice but also kind of so nice it just washes over you. I liked it but didn't love it.

What a great listen for an autumn afternoon. Fave Songs: Alone Together, September Song, Time on My Hands (You in My Arms), It Never Entered My Mind, Tis Autumn

Chet

Very chill jazz. Would have personally gone for "Chet Baker Sings" for a Chet album. Guy was both a great trumpeter and a singer. Don't do three trillion kilograms of heroin, kids.

I think this would be a perfect zone out album. You really need the time and space to zone out to appreciate this. That's really difficult.

Man, in a weird and maybe counterintuitive way I feel like I would have enjoyed this more if it was someone other than Chet The tunes are smooth as hell, with some incredible musicians (including the iconic Evans/Chambers/Jones rhythm section) playing remarkably lovely jazz, and Baker’s trumpet playing is truly wonderful. But once you’ve heard the beautiful 1954 album Chet Baker Sings, it’s not that easy to listen to a Chet Baker album where he doesn’t

Real nice one a Saturday morning

This was too soft and couldn't hold my attention. I didn't even realise it was over. 2/5.

Quiet, thoughtful, slow jazz. Great snoozer.

Chet is pretty sleepy soft jazz; when we've had good and vibrant jazz quite a few times before it exposes stuff like this as being sub-par, or at least not my speed. Maybe nice background listening in a dark and smoky bar but otherwise it's more miss than hit. 2/5.

Fine but unremarkable.

Smooth. Perhaps a bit too smooth. I like crunchy peanut butter.

I'm sure if you're into jazz then this is fantastic but I'm not!

Jazz just doesn't do it for me personally

Sorry chet, you’re not the one for me.