Chet Baker

INCLUDES 7 BONUS TRACKS:

MINI-LP PAPERSLEEVE
GATEFOLD REPLICA WITH OBI


These recordings were made during Chet Baker’s first European tour in 1955. It was during this tour that the quartet’s pianist, the talented Dick Twardzik, tragically died in Paris from a heroin overdose. Baker was devastated, and following Twardzik’s death –for which he felt some level of responsibility– the trumpeter submerged himself in the drug world and in a selfdestructive spiral which would last for the rest of his life. Baker would stay in Europe for a number of months after Twardzik’s death, playing with different local musicians. Baker signed a contract in Paris with Nicole Barclay to make seven albums, but in the end he would record only three.

PERSONNEL:

1-10: Issued as I GET CHET... (Felsted PDL85036)

CHET BAKER, trumpet on all tracks, with:

Collective personnel:

BOBBY JASPAR, tenor sax
MAURICE VANDER, RAYMOND FOL, RENÉ URTREGER, FRANCIS BOLAND, piano
BENOIT QUERSIN, JIMMY BOND, bass
JEAN-LOUIS VIALE, drums
among others. Paris, France,

December 1955-March 1956.

TRACKS:

01 HOW ABOUT YOU?
02 ONCE IN A WHILE
03 CHEKETAH
04 ALONE TOGETHER
05 CHET
06 DINAH
07 TASTY PUDDING
08 ANTICIPATED BLUES
09 V LINE
10 EXITUS
11 CHERYL*
12 EXITUS [quintet version]*
13 DEAR OLD STOCKHOLM *
14 ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE*
15 EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME*
16 V LINE [first version]*
17 IN MEMORY OF DICK*

Total time: 76:14

*BONUS TRACKS: From the same sessions, but not included on the original LP.