Chet Baker – Cool Cat (MOV)

180 gram audiophile black vinyl

Chet Baker was an American jazz trumpeter, actor and vocalist and a major innovator in cool jazz, leading him to be nicknamed ‘the prince of cool’. The 1989 album Cool Cat contains six tracks, split into 3 instrumentals; ‘Swift Swifting ‘, ‘Round Midnight’, ‘Caravelle’ and the 3 vocal tunes ‘For All We Know’, ‘Blue Moon’ and ‘My Foolish Heart’. The songs are written by top jazz composers, including Thelonious Monk, Rodgers & Hart. For the recordings of Cool Cat, Chet is accompanied by pianist Harold Danko, bassist Jon Burr and drummer Ben Riley.