There is a core element to Chelsea Wolfe’s music—a kind of urgent spin on America’s desolation blues—that’s existed throughout the entirety of her career. Wolfe has always been a conduit for a powerful energy, and while she has demonstrated a capacity to channel that somber beauty into a variety of forms, her gift as a…
While past albums operated on the intimacy of stripped-down folk music (The Grime and the Glow, Unknown Rooms), or the throbbing pulse of supplemental electronics (Pain Is Beauty, Abyss), Chelsea Wolfe’s sixth official album Hiss Spun wrings its exquisiteness out of a palette of groaning bass, pounding drums, and crunching distortion. Recorded by Kurt Ballou…
Chelsea Wolfe s latest album, She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She, is a rebirth in process. It is a powerfully cathartic statement about cutting ties, as well as an important reminder that everything we do is ultimately connected. CD Packaging: Softpak CD
Chelsea Wolfe – Unbound: She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She (Acoustic) Chelsea Wolfe presents Unbound, the final release in the She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out triptych featuring special, stripped-down versions of Whispers In The Echo Chamber, Dusk, The Liminal and Place In The Sun, plus a cover of Spiritbox s…
A brand new, expansive career-spanning compilation of Cher’s remarkable journey on 2LP Crystal Clear Vinyl with Silver Foil Cover. The first such collection on vinyl since 1992, it features a carefully curated and remastered tracklist of 21 songs sure to please longtime Cher fans and new converts, including “Believe”, “If I Could Turn Back Time”,…
With long-standing stints in Tower of Power and Santana, Chester Thompson just might be the most decorated and distinguished keyboardist in all of rock and R&B, let alone of the Bay Area musical scene. It’s little wonder that this 1971 album, then, is one of the rarest and most coveted albums on the highly collectible…
This session was recorded at Studio Pathé-Magellan in Paris, between Tuesday October, 25th, 1955 and February, 10th, 1956. Chet Baker and His Quintet With Bobby Jaspar is the third and last record for the Barclay label. In answer to an offer from Nicole Barclay, Chet Baker arrived in Paris early in September 1955. On the 22nd – or…
As Time Goes By (Love Songs) is the album from 1990 with love songs performed by Chet Baker. Most of the songs are sung slowy but elegant making this LP an example of the trumpeter s later style. Standards from Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk), You d Be So Nice To Come Home To (Cole Porter)…
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in deluxe gatefold jacket. Recorded in 1965 and showcasing a number of songs he d never recorded before; Baker s Holiday is Chet s tribute to Billie Holiday and features his instantly identifiable trumpet along with four trademark vocals. Backed by a full sax section and a four-piece rhythm…
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Somewhat of an oddity in Chet Baker s catalog, Blood, Chet & Tears is a record of his efforts to adapt to the changing musical landscape around him in 1970. Baker leans into light and easy-listening territory. His renditions of the Beatles Something and the Archies Sugar, Sugar gives some…
Few musicians have embodied the romantic – and ultimately tragic – jazz figure as totally as Chet Baker. Unschooled yet eloquent in his music, and a fast-liver who survived for nearly six decades, the Baker mystique has only reinforced one of the most haunting trumpet styles and ingenious approaches to jazz singing. The Los Angeles-based musician…
The complementing talents of Chet Baker both as a trumpet player and as a singer are now well known, and Will McFarland s original 10-inch album liner notes, on which he compared Chet with Louis Armstrong, still seem quite appropriate. Both his trumpet and voice seem to be extensions of the same musical personality, and…
Few musicians have embodied the romantic – and ultimately tragic – jazz figure as totally as Chet Baker. Unschooled yet eloquent in his music, and a fast-liver who survived for nearly six decades, the Baker mystique has only reinforced one of the most haunting trumpet styles and ingenious approaches to jazz singing. The Los Angeles-based musician…
The lyricism of Chet Baker, one of the most important post-war trumpet player, cannot be doubted because Chet in his musical expressions remains as singer and musicians essentially romantic. He fits beautifully into a context created around him and for him, a context that finds in the sonority of his trumpet or in the opacity…
Following the success of his vocal debut Chet Baker Sings in 1954, Pacific Jazz brought the rising star trumpeter back into the studio for the sequel Chet Baker Sings and Plays which showcased both sides of Baker s artistry on a set of standards including his timeless rendition of Let s Get Lost. This mono…