Title: Chet Baker – Chet Baker Sings
Year/Genre: 1954, Vocal Jazz
Condition: New (sealed; 180g limited yellow vinyl)

Cultural Facts:

1. Recorded in Los Angeles sessions that helped shift Baker’s reputation from West Coast trumpeter to unlikely vocal star.

2. Early critics were divided on his soft, fragile singing, but the album became one of his most enduring and reissued titles.

3. Helped popularize the cool jazz image of Baker as a matinee-idol figure, tying his music to 1950s beat-era West Coast culture.