{"product_id":"shine-1","title":"Shine","description":"\u003cp\u003eChet Baker’s Shine is a late‑career live recording from December 9, 1987, captured in Ferrara, Italy, just months before his death, and issued in deluxe 2LP\/2CD form by Red Records. The session presents Baker with a small, drumless European ensemble built for intimacy: his lyrical trumpet and occasional vocals are framed by piano (notably Michel Graillier), double bass, and multi‑instrumentalist Nicola Stilo on flute and guitar. Recorded with unusually clear, almost studio‑like sound for a club date, it highlights the qualities that defined Baker’s late style—an ultra‑soft, airy tone, unhurried phrasing, and the expressive use of silence and space between notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe repertoire is a mix of standards and modern ballads that Baker turns into slow‑burn character studies: “Night Bird” and “Conception” stretch out in long, exploratory lines, while “Almost Blue,” “I’m a Fool to Want You,” “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To,” “But Not for Me,” “In a Sentimental Mood,” and “Just Friends” showcase his ability to make familiar songs feel fragile and newly exposed. Without drums, the group leans on bass pulse, gentle piano comping, and the soft color of flute and guitar, giving the music a floating, nocturnal quality that suits Baker’s late‑period introspection. Rather than grand climaxes, the album offers a sustained mood of reflective swing and hushed melancholy, capturing a veteran improviser distilling decades of bebop language and personal turmoil into spare, deceptively simple lines that hang in the air like after‑images.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ 2LP","offer_id":53423466250554,"sku":"37917","price":70.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD \/ 2CD","offer_id":53423466316090,"sku":"37918","price":32.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-05-08_at_3.35.30_PM_9c082ffe-e89b-415c-827f-649efed8b211.jpeg?v=1780473733","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/shine-1","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}