Chet Baker
Trumpet Solo on
Autumn In New York

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Chet Baker's one-chorus trumpet solo closes the improvisation as the third and final solo on the second take of this Vernon Duke standard. At 113 BPM over the 32-bar ABA'C form in F, Baker delivers a single focused chorus rather than the two he played on Take 1, making this version slightly more compressed. The result has a definitive quality that suggests the trio had fully absorbed the song's emotional landscape by this point in the session, Baker's playing capturing the wistful beauty of Duke's composition with characteristic restraint.

Chet Baker was 49 to 50 years old at the time.