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Full Albums on YouTube

Seven landmark Chet Baker records, embedded here as full-album YouTube videos so you can hit play and listen end to end. Each one links back to its full Vinyl Standard review, with personnel, session notes, and the fan-voice writeup.

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Click play on any embed. Press F for fullscreen once the video loads. Videos are hosted on YouTube and link out to the source channel.

Era Two · New York Sessions
Chet
1959 · Riverside

The all-star Riverside date with Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Kenny Burrell, Pepper Adams, and Herbie Mann. The lyrical trumpet record, full stop: ballads with Evans that reach a kind of perfection neither man found anywhere else.

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Era Three · The Comeback Years
Chet Baker in Tokyo
Recorded 1987 · King / Paddle Wheel

The farewell. Eleven months before his death, with Harold Danko, Hein Van Der Geyn, and John Engels in front of a reverent Tokyo audience. The fourteen-minute My Funny Valentine and the definitive Almost Blue. Essential late Baker.

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Era Three · The Comeback Years
No Problem
1980 · SteepleChase

The Copenhagen quartet date built entirely on Duke Jordan compositions, with Jordan himself at the piano, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen on bass, and Norman Fearrington on drums. Two bebop survivors working through tunes one of them wrote.

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Era Three · The Comeback Years
The Touch of Your Lips
1979 · SteepleChase

No drums, no piano: just Baker with Doug Raney's guitar and Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen's bass. The most exposed setting of the late career and one of the best European records. Quiet, honest, and completely whole.

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Era Three · The Comeback Years
She Was Too Good to Me
1974 · CTI

The comeback record. Creed Taylor, Van Gelder's studio, the CTI house band, and Paul Desmond joining for an Autumn Leaves that became one of the most loved tracks in the whole Baker catalog. The second half of the story starts here.

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Era One · Pacific Jazz Years
Picture of Heath
1956 · World Pacific (originally Playboys)

The hard-swinging quintet date with Art Pepper, built on Jimmy Heath tunes. Originally issued as Playboys with the notorious pin-up cover, later reissued as Picture of Heath. Reviewed on our site under its original title.

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Era One · Pacific Jazz Years
Quartet: Russ Freeman / Chet Baker
1956 · Pacific Jazz

The final studio statement of the partnership that built the West Coast quartet sound. Freeman's tunes, Baker's horn, and the easy telepathy of four years working together. The cornerstone collaboration of the Pacific Jazz era.

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