Chet Baker - I Get Chet - Remastered (2014)

Chet Baker was a primary exponent of the West Coast school of cool

jazz in the early and mid-'50s. As a trumpeter, he had a generally
restrained, intimate playing style and he attracted attention beyond
jazz for his photogenic looks and singing. But his career was marred
by drug addiction.

"I Get Chet" is a 1956 French LP trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker
recorded for the Barclay label in 1955-1956 while on tour in Europe.
Featured on the album is Belgian saxophonist Bobby Jaspar, who
joined Baker for these sessions along with a backing group of
European musicians. 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.

This is superb 50's jazz in the classic West Coast style Baker was
known for. Remastered, with 7 bonus tracks from the same sessions,
but not included on the original LP.