This Is Jazz, Vol. 2

This Is Jazz, Vol. 2 Artist: Chet Baker
Label: Sony
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 074646477922
EAN: 0074646477922
ASIN: B000002ABE


Release Date: 1996-04-30

Related Categories:

Cool Jazz Cool Jazz
Related | Jazz | Styles | Music
General General
Related | Jazz | Styles | Music
General General
Related | Pop | Styles | Music

Tracks:

  1. Little Duet For Zoot And Chet
  2. Love Walked In
  3. You Don't Know What Love Is
  4. I'm Through With Love
  5. You Better Go Now
  6. The Wind
  7. Autumn Leaves
  8. She Was Too Good To Me
  9. Tangerine
  10. What'll I Do

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Unevenness isn't always a mixed blessing........2002-05-22

The lengths to which recording companies are going to recycle much of the "classic" material in their vaults, issuing all sorts of samplers and miscellanies at "attractive" prices and with catch-all titles, may ultimately cost the companies and the music more than the consumer. Verve and Columbia/Sony are the main offenders. Of all the "Ultimate," "Quintessential," Ken Burns' "Definitive," and "This Is Jazz" anthologies I've heard, I can't think of a single one that has enough focus or coherence to insure its being replayed much. They're at best points of reference, occasionally offering convenient access to a nugget or two. But besides detracting from the thematic and musical integrity of the original albums and playing havoc with the "historicity" of styles and sounds, these collections appear to contribute to the mentality that sees "albums" as little more than repositories for MP-3 files or the results of an amateur's indiscriminate CD-burning.

This Chet Baker "collection" is really two quite ordinary albums that, when played back to back, bring into bolder relief the limitations of each. The first album, "Chet Baker with Strings," is an early 50's session with dated orchestrations, dated piano voicings, and low fidelity. Moreover, unlike "Charlie Parker with Strings," the trumpet solos are not sufficiently distinguished to overcome their mundane settings. The 2nd album, a session from the mid-70's, is seriously blemished by the dated Fender Rhodes electric piano (moreso when doctored with a phase shifter) and the clearly excessive, depersonalizing reverb added to Chet's vocals. The best thing about the album is Paul Desmond's alto solos on "Autumn Leaves" and "Tangerine."

Music CD:

  1. Sunday at the Village Vanguard
  2. Standards ~ Rita Coolidge
  3. War Broadcasts ~ Glenn Miller
  4. FRED-Chicago Chamber Music ~ Fred Anderson
  5. The Jazz Hour ~ Various Artists
  6. The Charleston Days ~ Various Artists
  7. Explorations
  8. Moon Beams
  9. You've Got to Give Me Some ~ Carol Leigh
  10. Lovescape ~ Kevin Toney

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Sister and Brother ~ Melky Sedeck

Punk Singles Collection ~ Dickies

Numbers from the Beast: An All-Star Tribute to Iron Maiden ~ Various Artists

The Ugly American ~ Mark Eitzel

Powertrip ~ Monster Magnet

The Madcap Laughs/Barrett ~ Syd Barrett

Untitled ~ Nu Ground

Best of Do or Die ~ Do or Die

Straight out of Cypress ~ Various Artists

Choosey Lover ~ Ms. Neka