Chet Is Back!

by Chet Baker

Chet Is Back! cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1962
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.78/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Amedeo Tommasi, Benoit Quersin, Daniel Humair, Bobby Jaspar, Ren茅 Thomas

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded in Rome for RCA Victor shortly after his release from an Italian prison, this session finds Chet Baker backed by an international sextet featuring Ennio Morricone's future collaborator Amedeo Tommasi. Shaking off his West Coast cool jazz languor, Baker plays with surprising muscularity and speed, navigating complex bop arrangements with a renewed, energetic focus.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, improvisation, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Well, You Needn' t
  2. These Foolish Things
  3. Barbados
  4. Star Eyes
  5. Over The Rainbow
  6. Pent Up House
  7. Ballata In Forma Di Blues
  8. Blues In The Closet

Credits

  • Chet Baker Sextet - primary artist
  • Benoit Quersin - bass
  • Daniel Humair - drums
  • Bobby Jaspar - flute, tenor saxophone
  • Ren茅 Thomas - guitar
  • Rodolfo D'Intino - liner notes
  • Glauco Cortini - photography by
  • Amedeo Tommasi - piano, written-by
  • Ferro Piludu - sleeve
  • Chet Baker - trumpet
  • Thelonious Monk - written-by
  • Harry Link - written-by
  • Holt Marvell - written-by
  • Jack Strachey - written-by
  • Charlie Parker - written-by
  • Don Raye - written-by
  • Gene DePaul - written-by
  • Harold Arlen - written-by
  • Sonny Rollins - written-by
  • Oscar Pettiford - written-by

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