Chet Baker - Lost Tapes: Early Chet (2016)

Tracklist

01. Bockhanal
02. Cool Blues
03. Brash
04. Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be)
05. Sweet Georgia Brown
06. Lullaby in Rhythm
07. 7 Lively Arts Ev'ry Time we say Goodbye
08. Everything Happens To Me
09. I'll Remember April
10. Baker 56
11. It Never Entered My Mind
12. I Should Care
13. Love me Tonight Isn't It Romantic
14. Polka Dots and Moonbeams

The gentle poet of the trumpet that was his image. So it came as something of a surprise for European audiences to hear the Chet Baker they discovered at his live concerts: a trumpeter with a decisive attacca style and lively boppy lines, accompanied by a pianist who combined innovative harmonies with bizarre rhythms and a drummer who propelled the band with a hard, driving beat. No one was prepared for this Chet Baker Quartet, featuring pianist Dick Twardzik, bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Peter Littman. Bockhanal gives us a chance to experience the same sense of surprise: the Chet Baker Quartet with the Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra in what is possibly their only joint concert. Full of energy and melodic wit, Chet Baker flies through the piece written by his friend Jack Montrose, in a new interpretation by the Edelhagen band. Bockhanal is the earliest number on Early Chet and a particularly valuable rarity: just four weeks after this concert, the quartet no longer existed.

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