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Artist: ChetBaker
Album: Complete Studio Sessions with Dick Twardzik
Label: LoneHillJazz
Year: 1955
Time: 59:40
Format: mp3 @320 + complete scans
This exceptional release contains the earliest single issue of the two dates recorded in Paris by the Great Chet Baker Quartet with pianist Richard Twardzik, bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Peter Littman in October 1955. In addition to the nine original issue in LP our edition includes four bonus tracks from a concert given in Stuttgart the same month and year, with the same group plus local guest musicians: the baritone sax player Lars Gullin and the singer Caterina Valente.
Author Jack Chambers wrote about these recordings in his definitive book The Incomplete Works of Richard Twardzik (2004): “These recordings may represent the apogee of Baker’s talents as a pure musician.”
On this CD the trumpeter is heard in a quartet with the ill-fated pianist Dick Twardzik … and shows that his “cool” style actually had plenty of fire. *Scott Yanow*
Chet Baker (tp), Lars Gullin (bs), Richard Twardzik (p), Jimmy Bond (b), Peter Littman (d), Caterina Valente (vcl)
1. Rondette
2. Mid-Forte
3. Sad Walk
4. Re-Search
5. Just Duo
6. Piece Caprice
7. Pomp
8. The Girl from Greeland
9. Brash
10. Cool Blues
11. Brash
12. Lover Man
13. I’ll Remember April
Recorded in Paris and Stuttgart, October 1955.
Many thank’s !