Chet Baker – I Get Chet [Import]

Vinyl LP pressing includes d ! g ! t v l d 0 w n | 0 v d. Digitally re-mastered edition. These recordings were made during Chet Baker’s first European tour in 1955. It was during this tour that the quartet’s pianist, the talented Dick Twardzik, tragically died in Paris from a heroin overdose. Baker was devastated, and following Twardzik’s death – for which he felt some level of responsibility – the trumpeter submerged himself in the drug world and in a self-destructive spiral which would last for the rest of his life. Baker would stay in Europe for a number of months after Twardzik’s death, playing with different local musicians. Baker signed a contract in Paris with Nicole Barclay to make seven albums, but in the end he would record only three.

1How About You?
2Once in a While
3Cheketah
4Alone Together
5Chet
6Dinah
7Tasty Pudding
8Anticipated Blues
9V Line
10Exitus
11Cheryl