Chet Baker – Chet Is Back (LP Vinyl)
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Recorded in Rome at a moment when Baker's reputation in Europe far outpaced his standing back home, "Chet Is Back" captures the trumpeter and vocalist in a rare pocket of stability, surrounded by some of the continent's sharpest young rhythm players. Baker had built a devoted following across Italy in particular, where audiences responded to his lyrical, almost fragile phrasing in ways American critics often overlooked.
Forty-two years ago, Chet Baker - one of the most tragic figures of jazz who lived on the fast lane and ruined himself with drugs and alcohol - was constantly on the road from one European jazz club to another. Local rhythm groups were not always top notch so it was only logical to pick the very best from several countries for a film-music production in Italy. And it was equally logical that RCA's Italian subsidiary brought the musicians into the studio in January 1962.With one exception, the eight titles on this disc are all so-called standards. The two winds demand total concentration from the rhythm section while maintaining relaxed and laid-back harmonic patterns. And this is something the Italian Tommasi, the Belgian Thomas, the Frenchman Quersin and the Swiss Humair carry off with an air of nonchalance.
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Side B
UPC: 4260019712363
Label: Speakers Corner
Release Date: 9.4.26
Format: LP Vinyl