Chet Baker and his quintet with Bobby Jaspar – Chet Baker In Paris Vol.3 LP

Chet Baker and his quintet with Bobby Jaspar – Chet Baker In Paris Vol.3

In October 1955, Chet Baker and his Quartet are 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.

Recorded for the Barclay label between Autumn 1955 and Spring 1956 at Studio Pathé-Magellan in Paris, these sessions are now part of history. 

Titled « Chet Baker and His Quintet with Bobby Jaspar », the Volume Three brings together music from a few different sessions recorded between October 25, 1955 and February 1, 1956. However, only one session (December 26) contains Jaspar on tenor saxophone, performing ‘Chik-Eta’ and ‘How About You?’. The other sessions feature Baker leading groups with variable formation: quartet (performing ‘Alone Together’, ‘Exitus’, ‘Once in a While’), quintet (with Jean-Louis Chautemps on tenor performing ‘Tasty Pudding’ and ‘Anticipated Blues’) or octet (performing ‘Chet’, ‘Dinah’, ‘Vline’). Despite having been construed as rather a poor relation opposite the others in the trilogy, this last volume contains performances which are among the most beautiful that Chet Baker produced during this period.

Chet Baker, trumpet ∙ Bobby Jaspar, tenor sax (A1, A3) ∙ Armand Migiani, tenor sax (A5, B1, B4) ∙ Jean-Louis Chautemps, tenor sax (B2, B3) ∙ Jimmy Bond, double bass (A5, B1, B4) ∙ Benoît Quersin, double bass (A1–A4, B5) ∙ Eddie de Haas, double bass (B2–3) ∙ Jean-Louis Viale, drums (A1–4, B5) ∙ Bert Dahlander,drums (A5, B1, B4) ∙ Charles Saudrais, drums (B2–3) ∙ René Urtreger, piano (A5, B1, B4) ∙ Raymond Fol, piano (A2, A4, B5) ∙ Francy Boland, piano (B2–3) ∙ Bernard Vasseur, trombone (A5, B1, B4) ∙ Jean Aldegon, alto sax (A5, B1, B4) ∙ William Boucaya,baritone sax (A5, B1, B4) ∙ Pierre Michelot, conductor (A5, B1, B4)

Tracklist:
Side 1
1. HOW ABOUT YOU?  (B. Lane)
2. ONCE IN A WHILE  (M. Edwards ∙ Green)
3. CHIK-ETA  (Phil Urso)
4. ALONE TOGETHER  (H. Dietz ∙ A. Schwartz)
5. CHET  (P. Michelot)

Side 2
1. DINAH  (Akst ∙ Young Lewis) (Arr. P. Michelot)
2. TASTY PUDDING  (Al Cohn)
3. ANTICIPATED BLUES  (Chet Baker)
4. VLINE  (Ch. Chevallier)
5. EXITUS  (Phil Urso)

Label: Decca
Released: 2024