Artist : CHET BAKER.
Title : CHET BAKER QUARTET.
Orig issued in 1956 on French Barclay label - Barclay 84017.

This session, recorded at Studio Pathe-Magellan in Paris, on Monday October 24, 1955 from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.

On October 24th only Jimmy Bond was still with Chet : Peter littman had returned to America, and his seat was now accupied by Nils-Bertil ‘Bert’ Dahlander, a Swedish drummer who’d accompanied Lars Gullin. At the Keyboard was an almost-unknown pianist named Gérard Gustin who’d just been signed to a contract by Eddie Barclay. Given the context, they were obliged to fall back on standards. Chet knew how to play these better than anyone. He chose eight : ‘These Foolish Things’, wich stayed in his quartet’s répertoire for a while ; five others, wich the trumpeter performs here for the first time – ‘There’s a Small  Hotel, Autumn In New York, Summertime, You Go To My Head, Tenderly – and two -  I’ll Remember April and Lover Man – that he’d done less than tend ays earlier together with Lars Gullin and Dick Twardzik, whose disappearance was still something Chet refused to accept. Given this state of affairs, the whole session exudes a kind of sadness that’s impossible to put down, whatever the choice of tune or tempo.

Never before had Chet been as totally moving as he is throughout ‘You Go To My Head’.

Text – Alain Tercinet

Cat Number: SR04/1
Format : LP 12inch / NewRelease date : 10/05/2012Recording : Recorded in Paris in 1956 for Barclay label - The original is impossible to find
Personnel : Chet Baker (trumpet)
Gerard Gustin (piano)
Jimmy Bond (bass)
Nils-Bertil 'Bert' Dahlander (drums)
Track list :  SIDE A
 1. Small hotel
 2. I'll Remember April
 3. These Foolish Things
 4. Autumn In New York

 SIDE B
 1. Summertime
 2. You Got To My Head
 3. Tenderly
 4. Lover man

Limited Edition 180 gr reissued by Sam Records - Remastered from Original Master Tapes - Art Work using the Original Photos
Record: Pressed by Pallas in Germany.
Double Insert - Photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir.


FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE


ABOUT SAM RECORDS:

In the tradition of labels wholly devoted to vinyl re-pressing, Sam Records puts out a product of top-notch musical and visual quality.

While so many labels confine themselves to re-mastering digital versions (read: CDs) and reproducing the original artwork by simply scanning the cover, Sam Records uses only master tapes and re-creates record covers using the original photographs, paintings and/or drawings. That generally involves some painstaking detective work, so it’s a job for conscientious professionals, not corner-cutting amateurs.

Our re-pressings pay tribute to the people – the musicians, producers, labels, photographers, graphic artists and sound engineers – who created the original recordings that have become enduring legends of 1950s and ’60s jazz in France.

After my 2006 edition of the famous album Peace Treaty, recorded by saxophonist Nathan Davis in Paris in 1965 on the label SFP, Sam Records has now come out with a series of new editions, available exclusively on facsimile vinyl records:

·      Re-mastered from the original master tapes.

·      Limited édition 180 gr vinyl pressed by Pallas in Germany.

·      Facsimile reissue using the original photo from Jean-Pierre Leloir.

·      Double insert using an original photo by JP Leloir.

·      Each record has been visually checked to prevent defects.