CHET BAKER & STRINGS - CHET BAKER & STRINGS (PURE PLEASURE LP)

UK IMPORT. ALL ANALOGUE. 180g BLACK VINYL LP.

"This release offers a unique glimpse of a young Chet Baker in a quintet setting, complemented by a nine-piece string section. Utilizing the uniquely modern arrangements of Johnny Mandel, Marty Paich, Jack Montrose, and Shorty Rogers, this interaction of “West Coast cool” with primordial elevator music escapes many — if not indeed all — of the potential sonic pitfalls such a marriage might suggest. In the truest sense of the word augmentation, the string arrangements provide the desired opulence sans the heavy-handed or syrupy residual effects."