chet baker chet baker quartet chet baker in paris vol 1 size:OS You Gotta Pay The Band

You Gotta Pay The Band (Side 1)

Psychedelic Pi

in February 2023

Matt Brewer: Bass

Pete Jolly (piano)

chet baker chet baker quartet chet baker in paris vol 1 size:OS You Gotta Pay The BandChet Baker and Paris are terms that, when combined, trigger enthusiasm among jazz connoisseurs. The trumpeter with the melancholic tone and the city of love seemed made for each other when Baker recorded the first of three albums considered classics now in a Paris studio as part of his first European tour in October 1955. The first features, as part of his quartet, the highly talented bebop pianist Dick Twardzik, who died of a heroin overdose a week