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CHET BAKER QUARTET - LIVE IN PARIS VOL.1 (180GM) VINYL
CHET BAKER
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Facsimile reissue using the original photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir
Double insert using an original photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir from the recording session.
This session, recorded at Studio Pathe-Magellan October 11 and 14, 1955 in Paris, is the first of three recordings for the Barclay label between 1955 and 1956.
For his first recording-date in Paris Chet decided to tackle Bob Zieff's compositions, the same ones that Dick Twardzik had picked up in a hurry at the Alvin Hotel on his way to board the liner Ile-de-France. Violonist Dick Wetmore had just recorded the eight tunes, and Bob Zieff had had just enough time to revise the arrangements. Chet neither a champion sight-reader nor a big fan of rehearsals, hadn't yet played them in front of an audience. From that first French session only the reel referred to as a "production tape" remains.
This "complete Bob Zieff" gives an impression of unity that well matches the suite concept intended by the composer; as for "The Girl From Greenland," its role comes as a codicil. The record of Chet's quartet with Twardzik has now appeared in Ben Ratliff's book "Jazz, a Critic's Guide to The 100 Most Important Recordings" (The New York Times Essential Library); it's a fitting mention for an album that was long unrecognized in the the United States.
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