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Craft Recordings today announced a November 15th release of a 5 LP Chet Baker box set that includes the four albums the trumpet player released in 1958 and 1959 on Riverside along with a fifth album of outtakes and alternative takes all remastered directly from the original analog tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and pressed at RTI.

The albums are (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen To You, Chet Baker In New York, Chet, and Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe. Among Baker's musical collaborators here are Bill Evans, Johnny Griffin and Kenny Burrell. The set also includes a collectible photo print and a 16-page booklet filled with photos and insightful new liner notes by jazz historian Doug Ramsey. The complete collection will also be released digitally, including in hi-res 192/24 and 96/24 formats.

Happy holidays!