In November 1985, three years before his death at age 58, Baker performed at the Moonlight Club in Macerata, on Italy's east coast, halfway between Florence and Rome.
Baker had been touring in Europe that year with a range of different European musicians, and he extended the tour by a month in Italy, hiring Michel Graillier (p) Massimo Moriconi (b).
Estate (or Summer, pronounced ES-tah-tay) was written in Italy in 1960 by Bruno Martino. Baker's sublime melancholy feels about right.
Here's Chet Baker on trumpet playing Estate..
Other Perfection tracks in this ongoing series...
- Paul Desmond and Jim Hall: Any Other Time, go here.
- John Coltrane: You Say You Care, go here.
- Quincy Jones: Funk Junction, go here.
- Art Farmer's Work of Art, go here.
- Miles Davis: A Gal in Calico, go here.
- Gene Krupa: Mulligan Stew, go here.
- Dave Brubeck: The Duke, go here.
- Horace Silver: The Back Beat, go here.
- Horace Parlan: Up & Down, go here.
- Dexter Gordon: Society Red, go here.
- Barney Kessel: You Go to My Head, go here.
- Count Basie: Corner Pocket, go here.
- Herbie Mann: Manteca, go here.
- Donald Byrd: Bronze Dance, go here.
- George Shearing: I'll Be Around, go here.
- Ammons & Stitt: You Talk That Talk, go here.
- Count Basie: Blues in My Heart, go here.
- Moonlight in Vermont, go here.
- Johnny Griffin / Matthew Gee, Here, go here.
- Jimmy Smith / Stanely Turrentine: When I'I Grow Too Old to Dream, go here.
