Chet Baker has seldom sounded as otherworldly than he does here. This vocal collection of classic ballads is a valentine to the west coast scene, of which Mr. Baker was such a major figure. He died accidentally in 1988, at the age of 59, the year these standards were recorded. With just a small-combo setting -- bass, piano, drums, trumpet and vocal -- each tune is a finely-wrought cameo, sounding definitive in every way.