USED VINYL
Chet Baker - Chet Baker Quintette
$18.98
The record
Title: Chet Baker - Chet Baker Quintette
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1950s, Jazz, West Coast Cool Jazz, Yale, Oklahoma 6/26
Matrix #: US-7805
Condition: Sealed (LM) | Members: Chet B (29' - 88')
Cultural Facts:
- Personal Struggle: Baker’s heroin addiction, arrests, prison time, and a violent 1966 beating that damaged his teeth turned his beautiful cool-jazz image into one of jazz’s darkest biographies.
- Scene Ecology: The quintet format put Baker inside the West Coast cool-jazz lane, where lighter tone, tight arrangements, and lyrical restraint pushed back against heavier East Coast hard bop.
- Media Narrative: Baker’s soft trumpet sound and movie-star face made him a jazz pinup, but the music underneath stayed haunted, fragile, and far less clean than the photos suggested.
6/27/26 LM
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