Chet

Chet is an album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker featuring performances by Baker with Herbie Mann, Pepper Adams, Bill Evans, Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Connie Kay and Philly Joe Jones recorded in December 1958 and January 1959 and released on the Riverside label. The rhythm group is entirely teamed up by Miles Davis collaborators with Paul Chambers on bass, Bill Evans on piano and alternatingly Connie Kay and Philly Joe Jones on drums. It contains 9 ballads played in the styles of Hard Bop to Cool Jazz. The album is entirely devoted to explorations of the ballad mood, it includes considerable variety.