Chet Baker - Ring of Fire

Chet Baker and The Mariachi Brass play Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire"
Album: Double Shot

From http://chetbakertribute.com/disc_mariachi.html:

"In the mid-sixties, jazz had taken a back seat to rock and roll. Many jazz performers, desperate for work recorded "pop" albums, cashing in on whatever fad was hot in the music world. Chet's "Mariachi Brass" LP's mimicked on the then-hot Herb Alpert and Tijuana Brass sound. Just like Alpert's LP's, they even came complete with cover art featuring cheesy photos of beautiful models. Chet plays flugelhorn (as he did for most of his recordings around '64-66), but the album reverse photos show pictures of him playing trumpet. Carol Baker mentioned in this interview that Chet hated these recordings, but he had to support his family. Oddly, they sold well, and the royalties came in. It is unfortunate that he and his family didn't get royalties from many of his great recordings. All four sound about the same: heavy-handed arrangements featuring trumpet lines playing the melody in unison. These tunes become even more unbearable when you have songs that have no Latin flavor at all (Danke Schoen?!) and force them into these ridiculous arrangements. This is never so apparent than in the massacre of Glenn Miller tunes on In The Mood.

These LP's were issued on Dick Bock's "World Pacific" label, an offshoot of the Pacific Jazz.. These recordings have never been issued on CD."

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