Chet Baker As Composer?

[Justin V]

I know that Baker played by ear, but did he ever compose a contrafact?

[sgcim]

According to the book on him by J. de valk, he wrote "Freeway" on a Mulligan record, four Italian songs in 1962, "Blues For a Reason" on the record with Warne Marsh in 1984. Other compositions were "improvisations over a chord sequence, to which a title was later appended"

[Cyril]

Also"Early Morning Mood", its on the album "Chet". And "Chetty's Lullaby", Chet composed the music, and Alessandro Maffei, who wrote the lyrics.

[bichos]

i was looking through my collection and found this compositions by chet baker (according to the liner notes):

10.feb.56: "anitcipated blues"

"mr. b." (no exact date on this "bandstand" cd) 1962-71

30.sep.84: "we know it´s love"; "looking good tonight"; "blues for a reason"

keep boppin´

marcel