Chet Baker
Trumpet Solo on
You're Driving Me Crazy

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Chet Baker's trumpet solo is the opening of 2 solos on this recording, before Kenny Drew's closing piano statement. Spanning one chorus of the 32-bar AABA form at a medium-up 142 BPM with a swing feel in E♭, the solo runs approximately 55 seconds. Taken at a medium swing tempo of roughly 142 BPM in E-flat, the arrangement features Baker delivering a full chorus of trumpet improvisation in his signature lyrical style, his tone cool and focused with a light vibrato that floats over the rhythm section. Chet Baker was 28 to 29 years old at the time of this 1958 recording.

Chet Baker was 28 to 29 years old at the time.