Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu is regularly compared to Chet Baker, so it's only fitting that he and fellow Italian blower Enrico Rava should have devoted one of their series of discs dedicated to jazz masters to Chet; another of their subjects was Miles, and you can hear Davis' parched influence on this delightful set too, particularly in the lovely, yearning closing section of the cover of ‘My Funny Valentine’, where you have Fresu pleasurably parping in one ear while Rava gently raves in the other. That particular cut is very much associated with Baker but, as the leaders explain in their marvellously spare liner notes, as a tribute it's less about exploring his favoured repertoire than celebrating his spirit. There are no Baker originals, although there's a take on Gerry Mulligan's ‘Line for Lyons’. The material is often coolly groovin' (Horace Silver's ‘Doodlin’, Bird's ‘Anthropology’, Sonny Rollins' ‘Doxy’), not to mention moodily blue (‘Valentine’), and really soars when the leaders lock lines.