Chet Baker Quartet Featuring Dick Twardzick - Chet Baker in Paris, Vol 1 (Mono)
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Chet Baker, trumpet [click here to see more vinyl featuring Chet Baker]
Dick Twardzik, piano
Jimmy Bond, bass
Peter Littmann, drums
1 LP, Facsimile reissue with a double insert using an original photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir from the session
Limited to 750 copies
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Mono
Studio
Record Press : Optimal in Germany using the Metal Mothers from Pallas
Label : SAM Records
Original Label : Barclay
Recorded at Studio Pathé-Magellan in Paris on October 11 and 14, 1955
Produced by Fred Thomas
Photography by Jean-Pierre Leloir
Released in 1955
Reissued in 2021
Tracks:
Side A :
- Rohdette
- Piece Caprice
- Mid-Forte
- Re-Search
- Pomp
Side B :
- Sad Walk
- Just Duo
- The Girl From Greeland
- Brash
Awards :
TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal
"Recording of the Year Award at CES, Las Vegas 2014 by The Audio Beat Magazine!
Reviews :
"Baker is relaxed and mellifluous throughout, but the significance of the session comes from the bold playing of Richard Twardzik, a classically trained 24-year-old pianist who gained a reputation for innovation and daring... As physical objects, the Sam Records LPs are gorgeous. The sleeves are authentic copies of the originals, with European-style fold-over seams and crisp, vibrant graphics, and the Pallas-pressed, flat-edge records are gleaming slabs that play with essentially no noise." - Marc Mickelson, The Audio Beat
or his first recording-date in Paris Chet decided to tackle Bob Zieff’s compositions, the same ones that Dick Twardzik had picked up in a hurry at the Alvin Hotel on his way to board the liner Ile-de-France. Violonist Dick Wetmore had just recorded the eight tunes, and Bob Zieff had had just enough time to revise the arrangements. Chet neither a champion sight-reader nor a big fan of rehearsals, hadn’t yet played them in front of an audience. From that first French session only the reel referred to as a ‘production tape’ remains.
This ‘complete Bob Zieff’ gives an impression of unity that wellmatches the suite concept intended by the composer; as for “The Girl From Greenland”, its role comes as a codicil. The record of Chet’s quartet with Twardzik has now appeared in Ben Ratliff’s book “Jazz, a Critic’s Guide to The 100 Most Important Recordings” (The New York Times Essential Library); it’s a fitting mention for an album that was long-unrecognised in the the United States…
Ratings :
Discogs : 4.67 / 5 , The Audio Beat : 4/5 Music, 3.5/5 Sound