Cool Spring [Live]

Chet Baker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 24, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1959
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: King Jazz Records
• ASIN: B000056ZWK
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #488,162 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. When I Love

2. Street of Dreams

3. Angel Eyes

4. Look For The Silver Lining

5. My Old Flame

6. Lady Bird

7. Goodbye

8. The Song Is You

9. Autumn In New York

10. Line For Lyons

11. Indian Summer

12. I Should Care

13. Forgetful

14. Tune Up

15. Violets For You

16. Cheryl Blues

17. Deep In A Dream

Editorial Reviews

Previously unreleased studio recordings made in Italy in 1959 for the Warwick Records label just prior to his imprisonment. Includes performances with his quartet and sextet. 17 tracks including five vocal tracks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars As cool as even Chet gets - Highly recommended!, June 27, 2001

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Eric E. Lane "ericlane" (High Tech, Ca USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cool Spring (Audio CD)

This is a great CD to snuggle with your sweetheart by. Very comfortable. Nice arrangements. A few of the string arrangements duplicate the 'Chet with Strings' CD, but lay out well within the tracks here. This was recorded in '59 during Chet's first stay in Italy. His voice is better than the 'Best of Chet Sings' CD. This is one of Chet's 'clean' times... so everything is as good as he gets. The one drawback on a few songs is a concert hall (or big bar) acoustic/echo effect. Other than that, This rates as one of my favorite Chet CD's (and I have 30+!).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A re-release under a new title., April 22, 2008

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Gordon Matthews (Durham, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cool Spring (Audio CD)

This collection combines in their entirety two CD's currently available in the OJC series: Chet Baker In Milan and Chet Baker with Fifty Italian Strings. If you have those you don't need this collection, but if you don't you might find it generally worthwhile- it's certainly inexpensive. The sound quality is comparable to the OJC versions; unfortunately, Cool Spring intermingles tracks from the two albums at random instead of presenting first one album and then the other. Like most people, I'd rather hear the original sequencing, and it's hard to imagine why the material should be presented in this perverse form. Also, the description in the product heading is erroneous- these are studio recordings, not live recordings.

As far as the quality of the music goes, I'm pretty much in agreement with the other reviewer (except that I actually enjoy the slight echo chamber effect). I agree that Chet Baker In Milan is one of his best recordings from this period, even though the accompanying musicians are not names that we recognize. And if the idea of jazz with strings makes you nervous, as it does me, you might want to make an exception in this case. These arrangements are not gooey or sappy, and provide an appropriate background for Chet's romantic playing and singing. But you might want to spend a little more and get the OJC version instead.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Accurate performer credits, November 16, 2008

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Barb - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cool Spring (Audio CD)

Amazon has posted songwriter names with the tracks, as if they perform here. The players on these tracks, performed live in Italy in 1959 and arranged by Guilio Libani, are:

Tracks 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 14, and 16: Chet Baker (trumpet), Glauco Masetti (alto sax), Gianni Basso (tenor sax), Renato Sellani (piano), Franco Cerri (bass), and Gene Victory (drums).

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, and 17: Chet Baker (trumpet), Mario Pezzotta (trombone), Glauco Massetti (alto sax), Gianni Basso (tenor sax), Renato Sellani (piano), Fausto Papetti (baritone sax), Franco Cerri (bass), and Gene Victory (drums). (This latter group includes strings.)