To mark what would have been the 95th birthday of Chet Baker, Decca Records France presents high quality reissues on 180gm vinyl of the three original Chet Baker in Paris albums, released on Barclay in 1955 and 1956.
These are the first represses on vinyl on Universal of these albums.
In October 1955, Chet Baker and his Quartet were to give a series of concerts, notably in France. Many French people expected a playboy and dilettante trumpeter to get off the plane; the man who arrived was someone who lived only for, and by, his art.
A first album recorded in Paris placed him in the jazz avant-garde; the series of recordings that followed formed the private journal of someone so incapable of hiding his emotions that he sublimated them in the only way he knew: in music.Ch
This is a happy departure into speaking about a genre in jazz that doesn’t get too much attention. Volume 1-3 is available in store from Friday, August 30.
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