Listening now to the new release from HDTT of Chet Baker in New York. It sounds really good in this DXD/DSD256 transfer. Some don’t care for Baker’s cool jazz style, but I find him very involving. Playing with the principally East Coast players Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones and Johnny Griffin, this album has a nice “cross-over” vibe to it. The group slides comfortably between laid back West Coast (“Polka Dots and Moonbeams” or “Blue Thoughts”) to hard driving East Coast bebop (“Hotel 49”) to finding balance in between on other cuts like Miles Davis’ “Solar”. Baker’s trumpet solos instantly identify why he was considered such a great stylist.
