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APRIL 1954 …Chet Baker Sings APRIL 2 The post-war era was really starting to swing. Today, the construction of Disneyland was announced, and the price of America’s first mass-produced colour TV set was reduced. Simultaneously, America had just tested their largest-ever nuclear bomb and President Dwight D Eisenhower was preparing his “domino theory” outlining America’s fears of international communism. Meanwhile, as reported in DownBeat, California trumpeter Chet Baker was in the midst of a two-week engagement at the Basin Street jazz club on Times Square, with pianist Russ Freeman. Six weeks earlier in Hollywood, the two and producer Dick Bock from the Pacific Jazz label had recorded the trumpeter’s first vocal LP, Chet Baker Sings. “It is startling to discover a voice and a horn of such quality with but…

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