Chet Baker Quartet (Chet Baker in Paris Vol. 1) (Mono Remastered) Chet Baker

• 1 Rondette 02:10
• 2 Piece Caprice 05:08
• 3 Mid-Forte 03:06
• 4 Re-Search 04:57
• 5 Pomp 04:39
• 6 Sad Walk 04:14
• 7 Just Duo 04:10
• 8 The Girl From Greenland 05:14
• 9 Brash 05:53
• Total Runtime 39:31

Info for Chet Baker Quartet (Chet Baker in Paris Vol. 1) (Mono Remastered)

Neues 24-Bit-Remastering: In den Jahren 1955 & 1956 lebte und arbeitete Chet Baker in Paris und hinterliess dort eine für die vergleichweise kurze Zeit große Menge hervorragender Aufnahmen für das Barclay-Label.

Chet Baker und Paris sind Begriffe, die in Kombination bei Jazzkennern Begeisterung auslösen. Der Trompeter mit dem melancholischen Ton und die Stadt der Liebe schienen füreinander geschaffen, als Baker im Rahmen seiner ersten Europa-Tournee im Oktober 1955 in einem Pariser Studio das erste von drei Alben aufnahm, die längst als Klassiker gelten. Auf dem ersten ist als Teil seines Quartetts der hochtalentierte Bebop-Pianist Dick Twardzik zu hören, der, nur 24 Jahre alt, eine Woche nach der Session an einer Heroinüberdosis starb. Von den originalen europäischen Analogbändern neu gemastert.

Chet Baker, Trompete
Jimmy Bond, Kontrabass
Peter Littmann, Schlagzeug
Dick Twardzick, Klavier

Aufgenommen zwischen 11. - 25. Oktober 1955 im Pathé-Magellan Studio, Paris.

Digital remastered

Chet Baker Trumpeter and singer Chet Baker encountered jazz when playing with Army bands where he quickly developed his distinctive style. A short stint with Charlie Parker (1952) was followed by a long association with baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan. The pianoless quartet performed and recorded with great success - immediate fame came to Chet Baker and his cool, subdued style. His lyricism became typically associated with West Coast jazz and found many followers around the world. Baker led his own groups after leaving Mulligan for many years in both the US and Europe. His career became somewhat erratic in the sixties when he lived and worked mostly in Europe.

In the seventies he began his comeback and his very unique talent as a vocalist and instrumentalist soon put him back on the major concert stages. Excellent albums were done during the last ten years of his life which were maybe less perfect than his early West Coast work in the technical sense but showed a depth of feeling and intensity rarely heard. Luckily his last concert was recorded: it is one of the finest of his career (The Last Concert ENJ-6074 22). Chet Baker was very involved with the production of the concert, choose the music well in advance which was arranged for an ensemble consisting of a regular bigband, a symphony orchestra and a jazz quintet. He was very happy that he could finally record and perform under the best of circumstances. That night's version of My Funny Valentine,a song he had performed uncountable times before will stand out for all times as an absolute masterpiece of vocal jazz.

Dec. 23, 1929 (Yale, Oklahoma) - May 13, 1988 (Amsterdam).

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