Chet Baker Quartet: In Paris Vol.2 LP ETJS-20 largely because it had to

largely because it had to be divided for double LP

This expanded release of Ella Fitzgerald’s legendary 1960 concert at Berlin’s Deuthschlandhallen features the First Lady of Song backed by the tightly swinging Paul Smith Trio as she powers through classic tracks including “The Lady Is A Tramp

” and the urgent absurdity of “Rocket Number Nine

Elvin Jones

I still aim to be fully honestly myself in my expression--maintaining my voice in any variation of musical climate

Chet Baker Quartet: In Paris Vol.2 LP ETJS-20 largely because it had toIn October 1955, Chet Baker and his Quartet gave 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