Chet Baker – Angel Eyes (Vinyl LP)

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Description

**THIS IS A VINYL LP**

Release Date:  2022

Label:  Waxtime

 

Track List

Side A

  1. I Should Care
  2. Violets For Your Furs
  3. The Song Is You
  4. When I Fall In Love
  5. Goodbye

Side B

  1. Autumn In New York
  2. Angel Eyes
  3. Street Of Dreams
  4. Forgetful
  5. Deep In A Dream
  6. My Funny Valentine

 

Notes

Limited Edition 180g color vinyl pressing.

Originally issued in Italy as “Angel Eyes” and in the US as “Chet Baker with Fifty Italian Strings”, this LP was made by Chet Baker in Milan during his second tour of Italy in 1959. Backed by a big band conducted by Len Mercer (the artistic name of the Milanese conductor Ezio Leoni) in a selection of well-known standards, including a new reading of the classic Baker hit, “My Funny Valentine.”

PERSONNEL:

  • CHET BAKER (trumpet & vocals) on all tracks, plus:
  • Len Mercer’s Orchestra:
  • Mario Pezzotta (tb), unknown (fhr), unknown oboe, fl, harp & cl, Glauco Masetti (as), Gianni Basso (ts), Fausto Papetti (bar), Giulio Libani (p, cello, arr), unknown strings (16 violins, 4 violas, cello, 2 bass), Franco Cerry (b), Gene Victory (d), Len Mercer [aka Ezio Leoni] (arr, cond).

Recorded at Gurtler Bros. Studio, Milan, Italy, September 28 (A3-A4, B2, B5), September 29 (A1, A5, B1, B6) & October 5 (A2, B3-B4), 1959.

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