This was recorded in a Paris studio in 1978. If you like Chet's albums he made for Steeplechase Records in 1979, or if you like She Was Too Good To Me or You Can't Go Home Again, this is an absolute must!!! This includes Chet's best ever renditions of How Deep is The Ocean? and Oh You Crazy Moon. The title track, Broken Wing, is simply melancholy jazz at its finest. ANY major Chet fan will love this album, possibly even mild/new Chet fans - don't pass this one by!!!

Chet Baker must have been born cool. Been that way from the get-go. He also had an innate sense of beauty that imbued everything he touched and breathed life into, musically. BROKEN WING (original release date: February 19, 2009), is an example of this. Take, for example, one of the cuts on this c.d. "Oh, You Crazy Moon." He plays, sings, scats - and every instant of what he does with this song is the essence of cool, of beauty. Other tunes on the album are: Broken Wing, Black Eyes, Blue Gilles, How Deep Is The Ocean. This album is a gorgeous, relaxed, beautiful, tasty and, yes - a very COOL treat. Sometimes I wonder what a Chet Baker, with the gift he had as a musician/vocalist might have given the world had he allowed himself to remain a bit longer among us? How that gift might have evolved? What might it have shared with us about the autumn of life? I've wondered the same thing about Bill Evans? But then the moments I wonder I'm put in touch with this: immense gratitude that I'm alive and able to listen to the beauty they both left us in their music. I purchased this c.d. on Amazon. Highly recommended.

You don't have to be a Chet Baker fan to dig this CD. "Black Eyes" is great. This is one of those CDs that I play over and over again. I rate this and Chet's "A Sentimental Walk In Paris" CD as tops.

I am a listener not a critic. I either like it or I don't . Musically speaking I often don't know why I like something.To me Baker hits it with this one.