Chet Baker Quartet - Chet Baker in Paris Vol. 1
To mark what would have been the 95th birthday of Chet Baker, Decca Records France presents high quality reissues on 180gm vinyl of the three original Chet Baker in Paris albums released on Barclay in 1955 and 1956.
In October 1955, Chet Baker and his Quartet were to give a series of concerts, notably in France. Many French people expected a playboy and dilettante trumpeter to get off the plane; the man who arrived was someone who lived only for, and by, his art. A first album recorded in Paris placed him in the jazz avant-garde; the series of recordings that followed formed the private journal of someone so incapable of hiding his emotions that he sublimated them in the only way he knew: in music.
Volume One brings together the first two sessions recorded on October 11 and 14, 1955. With Richard “Dick” Twardzik on piano, Jimmy Bond on bass and Peter Littmann on drums, Chet performs eight originals of Robert L. ‘Bob’ Zieff ("Rondette," "Pièce-Caprice," "Mid-Forte," "Re-Search," "Pomp," "Sad Walk," "Just Duo," "Brash") plus a solitary contribution from Twardzik ("The Girl From Greenland.")
Edition Info
Remastered from original master tapes and presented in single sleeves with original jackets and liner notes.
Tracklisting
Side A
RONDETTE (Bob Zieff)
PIECE CAPRICE (Bob Zieff)
MID-FORTE (Bob Zieff)
RE-SEARCH (Bob Zieff)
POMP ( Bob Zieff)
Side B
SAD WALK (Bob Zieff)
JUST DUO (Bob Zieff)
THE GIRL FROM GREENLAND (Dick Twardzick)
BRASH (Bob Zieff)
Released 30th August 2024
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