Chet Baker

American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and vocalist. A tragic figure with immense talent, both in his silvery fingered trumpet playing and his wonderfully soft and heartfelt voice. 

Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the 1950s, particularly for albums featuring his vocals (Chet Baker Sings, It Could Happen to You).

Discography:(PARTLY)
Pacific Jazz
    West Coast Live - with Stan Getz (1953-54)
    The Chet Baker Quartet (1953)
    Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman (1953)
    Grey December (1953)
    Chet Baker Sextet (1954)
    Jazz at Ann Arbor (1954)
    Chet Baker Sings (1954)
    Chet Baker Sings and Plays - with Bud Shank, Russ Freeman & Strings (1955)
    Chet Baker in Europe (1955)
    Chet Baker & Crew (1956)
    Chet Baker Big Band (1956)
    Playboys (1956)
    Quartet: Russ Freeman/Chet Baker (1956)
    
Riverside/Jazzland:   
   (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You (1958)
    Chet Baker in New York also released as Polka Dots and Moonbeams (1958)
    Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace - with Johnny Pace (1958)
    Chet (1959)
    Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959)
    Chet Baker in Milan (1959)
Steeple Chase:
    Day Break (1979)
    No Problem (1979)
    Someday My Prince Will Come (1979)
    The Touch of Your Lips (1979)
    This Is Always (1979)
Other labels:
    Chet Baker & Strings (Columbia, 1954)
    My Funny Valentine (Philology, 1954)
    Live in Europe (Accord, 1956)
    Stan Meets Chet - with Stan Getz (Verve, 1958)
    Chet Is Back! (RCA, 1962)
    Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Bluebird, 1962)
    Chet Baker Sings and Plays (Colpix, 1964)
    She Was Too Good to Me (Columbia, 1974)