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Play Baker after midnight

glitter; the Orbison resurrection continues; vamping

B AKER IS found on Let’s Get Lost; ex-glam rockers still

love tramp teases.
Chet Baker — Sings And Plays
From The Film Let’s Get Lost,
Novus 1989

Chet Baker’s music is an easy in-
troduction to the cool blue west
coast jazz style. Brooding trumpet
notes resonate — residual embers
from some dark and unresolved
passion. The voice is a simple,
sighed whispering.

The song selection gives us
choice bits of Baker, Cole Porter,
Duke Ellington and Elvis (Almost
Blue) Costello. Buttery bass work
by John Leftwich stands out.
Check it out and play it repeatedly
fram midnight on.
lan Hunter/Mick Ronson — YU!
ORTA, PolyGram Records 1989

These ex-glam rockers showed
the listless audience at last week’s
Vancouver Hunter-Ronson con-
cert that young-dude demeanor
exists solely in the head.

Ronson holds up as one of the
few truly preat school-of-ear-
blistering lead guitar players
around. Hunter was a whiskey-
throated original during the early
1970s and continues to sporadical-
ly pen introspective mush and in-
cendiary mayhem. Here, the Mott
The Hoople cohorts spark and ig-
nite on the grinding flat-out rocker
Women’s Intuition and American
Music, a ned from Hunter to past
musical influences.

Roy Orbison And Friends — A
Black And White Night Live,
Virgin Records 1989

Roy Orbison — The Singles Col-
lection 1965 - 1973, PolyGram
Records 1989

and, because he is quickly becom-
ing immortal, we mortals have a
second chance to get to know him
a little better.

MICHAEL
BECKER

record review

The live release is an offshoot of
a 1987 television project which
saw the man in biack teamed with
Jackson Browne, T Bone Burnett,
Elvis Costello, k.d. lang, jennifer
Warnes, Bonnie Raitt, ).D.
Souther, Bruce Springsteen and
Tom Waits. Sadly, the lineup is
superfluous. The guests are
deployed as mere session players
to the star. The result is a clean-
enough-sounding live portfolio of
Orbison hits. It could have been a
great record had some of the wor-
shipful others been able to give
and take a bit centre stage with the
legend.

The singles collection is a
revealing skip through MGM
holdings. Orbison spent the entire
period attempting to regain the
popular momentum attained when
he hit big with 1964's trademark
classic, Oh Pretty Woman. We
know he didn’t quite make it, but
there are some myth-building cuts

See Transvision

Orhy lives on and on and on

JAZZ TRUMPETER Chet Baker does the slow burn on a great movie soundtrack release.

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