Chet Baker – She Was Too Good To Me

Chet Baker was one of the main cornerstones of the cool jazz movement on the American West Coast. His heroin addiction is widely documented thanks to his legendary anecdotes of misadventures and missteps, but his life story never managed to overshadow his signature talent overshadow his unmistakable talent

Chet Baker's sound has the highest recognition value in the jazz canon; his trumpet playing is personal, simple and fragile with a dash of heartbreaking melancholy

"She Was Too Good To Me" was released in 1974 on Creed Taylor's CTI label, after Baker had already been out of the scene for four years. What a comeback! Fantastic cool jazz songs with vocals meet instrumental grandiosity. The undisputed king of the trumpet!