Chet Baker

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

The music in this CD comes from no-professional privates tapes and its technical sound quality its no up to today's standarts. However, it is released because of the impotance of the musicians involved and of its high musical and historical value. Every effort has been made to improve the sound qualilty through advanced restoration technologies.

This release presents a long unavailable concert by Chet Baker recorded in Copenhagen in 1955, during his first European tour and shortly after the tragic death of his pianist Dick Twardzik from a heroin overdose. As a bonus, a plenty of rare broadcast performances from the same period. All tracks have been newly restored and carefully remastered.

PERSONNEL:

CHET BAKER, trumpet
JEAN LOUIS CHAUTEMPS, tenor sax
RALPH SCHECROUN, piano
EDDIE DE HAAS, bass
CHARLES SAUDRAIS, drums
Odd Fellow Palaet, Copenhagen, December 11, 1955.

[7-16] BONUS TRACKS:

[7]: CHET BAKER (tp), RUSS FREEMAN or HARVEY LEONARD (p), unknown b & d.
“Tonight Show” TV broadcast, New York, 1955.

[8-9]: CHET BAKER (tp, vcl on Just Friends), RUSS FREEMAN (p), CARSON SMITH (b),
BOB NEEL(d). Radio broadcast from the Blue Note, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1955.

[10]: CHET BAKER, WERNER REHM (tp), DICK SIMON (tb), GUSTL MAYER (cl),
LOUIS FREUCHEL (vib), CLAUS OGERMAN (p), GED SCHUTTRUMPF (g),
BEMOIT QUERSIN (b), CHARLES SAUDRAIS (d). SWF Telecast “Jazz Gehort und Gesehen”,
Baden-Baden, Germany, December 6, 1955.

[11-12]: CHET BAKER (tp), PHIL URSO (ts), FRANCY BOLAND (p), SCOTT LaFARO (b), LAWRENCE MARABLE (d). “Tonight Show” TV Broadcast, New York, late 1956.

[13-14]: CHET BAKER (tp), PHIL URSO (ts), BOBBY TIMMONS (p), JIMMY BOND (b),
PETER LITTMAN (d). KABC “Stars of Jazz” TV Show, L.A., Sep. 5, 1956.

[15-16]: CHET BAKER (tp), PHIL URSO (ts), CARSON SMITH (b), BOB NEEL (d).
“Tonight Show” TV broadcast, New York, December, 1954.


TRACKS:

01. C.T.A.
02. Cheyl
03. Darn That Dream
04. Chekeetah
05. Four
06. Exitus (Theme)
07. Stella by Starlight
08. I'll Remember April
09. Just Friends
10. Sweet Georgia Brown
11. Extra Mild
12. C.T.A.
13. Imagination
14. Jumpin' Off a Clef
15. Makin' Whoopee
16. Motel