Beautifully presented in a set of 12 boxes, whose spines combine to create one of William Claxton's iconic portraits of Chet Baker complete with Cadillac and trumpet, and collectively spelling out ‘C-HE-T-B-A-K-E-R’ interspersed with a trumpet logo, this is an attempt to draw together the main corpus of Chet's work across his first decade. Each CD is appropriately accompanied by more of Claxton's atmospheric photos, on the front of the packaging and in the accompanying booklet. There is some duplication of tracks across the set, as the opening box, entitled For Lovers, has vocals and instrumentals that appear elsewhere, serving as a taster for the entire collection. This is a shame, as it might have been good instead for the complete package to have included a few more unusual tracks such as the 1955 sessions with Dick Twardzik, or the 1952 sides with Charlie Parker and Sonny Criss. That said, the set is pretty broad-ranging, with few of the gaps apparent in the two Avid collections reviewed in the May Jazzwise. Hence we have the original piano-less Mulligan Quartet studio recordings in a 2CD box that combines the Pacific and Fantasy material. We have the complete Chet Baker Sings and all the Russ Freeman quartet sides that were cut in the studio, plus their celebrated Ann Arbor concert. Then we have the New York sides from 1958-59, both the ones with Bill Evans and with Al Haig, plus the West Coast Art Pepper collaborations, and the 1959 Italian sessions. The collection is rounded off with Chet with strings, his big band, and the solos with (among others) the orchestras of Ennio Morricone and Rolf Hans Müller. If the Avid sets forced a reevaluation of his trumpet playing, this bumper package makes one look at his singing and playing in an even broader context. Yes, it's uneven, as might be expected by anyone who's read Jim Gavin's warts-and-all biography, Deep In A Dream, but after listening through the decade's worth of music contained here, his lyrical artistry as a trumpeter is beyond doubt, and he often achieves that rare heady space where beauty and invention combine to create truly immortal music.