Balladeer

Heavenly melodies, gorgeous melancholy. Merci, Michel Legrand!

Brad Mehldau Trio - Blues and Ballads (Nonesuch)

Lucinda WIlliams - Like a Rose

Luis Rabello (p) & Floor Braam /violin): Radames Gnattali - Flor da Noite (Challenge)

Carl Vollrath - Lingering Longings, Music for clarinet and piano Vol 2 (Navona)

Carlo Grante plays Schubert (Music and Arts)

Michael Kevin Jones (violoncello) & Agustin Maruri (guitar) play Soffren Degen (1816-1885) (EMEC Discos Madrid)

There´s an album on Black Lion, "Something to remember you by", recorded in the early Sixties, that I am also very fond of. Interesting to compare Freemans sound on this one with his tone of earier decades.

Don Byas Paris recordings

Wolfgang Lackerschmid & Chet Baker - Ballads for Two (Dot Time Records) Among the two bonus tracks on this welcome recent reissue of a first studio recording with German vibraphonist Wolfgang Lackerschmid from 1979 is a wonderful version of "Why shouldn´t I cry" with Chet playing muted

Ekkehard Wölk Trio - The Berlin Album (Jazzwerkstatt)

Eleanor Weingartner & Camerata de las Americas - 21st Century Lyrical Clarinet Concertos (Urtext)

Soffren Degen - chamber music for guitar and cello (EMEC Records)

Guy Lafitte, Franck Pourcel et son Orchestre - Viens au creux de mon epaule

Guy Lafitte & Andre Persiany - Les Classiques du Jazz, complete recordings (Fresh Sound)

Carl Vollrath - Lingering Longings: Music for clarinet and piano Vol 2 (Navona)

Michael Kevin Jones (clo) & Augustin Maruri (gtr): Soffren Degen - Chamber Works (EMEC Records)

Magos Herrera & Brooklyn Rider - Dreamers (Sony) One of my pick for albums of the year

Buddy Collette

Alan RInehart - Dreams laid down: New music for classical guitar (Ravello)

Rosanne & Johnny Cash - September when it comes

Chet Baker Quintet - 3 albums: Stairway to the Stars, Lonely Star & On a Misty Night (Prestige)

Rosanne Cash - She remembers everything (Blue Note)

Kellan Toohey & Suyeon Kim: Scenes from Home - Music for clarinet and piano by Colorado composers (MSR Classics) Bucolic gems from the 21st century

.I share your enthusiasm about those Prestige sessions, almost hardboppy up to Chets standards. This is crisp, gripping music, Lightseys piano almost funky and Coleman rough, expressive and ready. You´re right with the flugel. As far as I remember Chets trumpet had been stolen shortly before the sessions."Everything happens to me" a fitting signature beside "Valentine". BTW "Everything happens..." is also covered on a KL trio album recorded decades later for the Dutch Timeless label. Chet sits in on one of the most beautiful versions of this ballad. Highly recommended, too!