Towards the end of his life, Cool Jazz legend Chet Baker made a guest appearance on an Elvis Costello's 1983 album Puch The Clock to play the trumpet solo on "Shipbuilding". Just a few years later, Baker would record this version of Costello's "Almost Blue" for the academy award nominated documentary film Lets Get Lost, released just months before Baker would be found dead after falling out of his second story hotel window in Amsterdam in 1988. Baker struggled most of his career with heroin addiction, and his delicate, withered vocal performance here tells the whole story.

Chet Baker-Almost Blue