Chet Baker And His Quintet With Bobby Jaspar (Chet Baker in Paris Vol. 3) (Mono Remastered) Chet Baker

• 1How About You? (Master Take 7)04:33
• 2Once In A While (Instrumental)05:37
• 3Chik-Eta (Master Take 6)06:00
• 4Alone Together (Instrumental)03:53
• 5Chet (Take 5)03:17
• 6Dinah (Master Take)03:01
• 7Tasty Pudding04:45
• 8Anticipated Blues02:27
• 9Vline (1st Version)03:02
• 10Exitus08:33
• Total Runtime45:08

Info for Chet Baker And His Quintet With Bobby Jaspar (Chet Baker in Paris Vol. 3) (Mono Remastered)

Neues 24-Bit-Remastering: Auf seinem dritten französischen Album hatte Chet Baker sich unüberhörbar „warmgespielt“. Diesmal arbeitete er mit einem belgisch-französischen Quintett zusammen, das neben Tenorsaxofonist und Flötist Bobby Jasper auch Pianist Francy Boland beinhaltete. Das Repertoire bot eine wunderbare Mischung aus Originalen von Baker und mit Baker assoziierten Musikern sowie eine Handvoll ins Ohr gehender Standards. Von den originalen europäischen Analogbändern neu gemastert.

Chet Baker, Trompete
Bobby Jaspar, Tenorsaxophon, Flöte
Francy Bolland, Klavier
Benoit Quersin, Kontrabass
Pierre Lemarchand, Schlagzeug
Teddy Hameline, Altsaxophon
William Boucaya, Baritonsaxophon
Armand Migiani, Tenorsaxophon
Benny Vasseur, Posaune

Aufgenommen im Studio Pathe-Magellan in Paris, zwischen Dienstag, 25. Oktober 1955 und 10. Februar 1956.

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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