℗ 2024 Decca Records France
| Released | August 30, 2024 |
| Duration | 39m 31s |
| Record Label | Universal Music Division Decca Records France |
| Genre | Jazz |
Chet Baker Quartet (Chet Baker in Paris Vol. 1)
Chet Baker
Available in 192 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC and 11.2896 MHz DSD high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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Rondette
Chet Baker |
2:10 | |||
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1.2
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Piece Caprice
Chet Baker |
5:08 | |||
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1.3
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Mid-Forte
Chet Baker |
3:06 | |||
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1.4
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Re-Search
Chet Baker |
4:57 | |||
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1.5
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Pomp
Chet Baker |
4:39 | |||
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1.6
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Sad Walk
Chet Baker |
4:14 | |||
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1.7
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Just Duo
Chet Baker |
4:10 | |||
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1.8
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The Girl From Greenland
Chet Baker |
5:14 | |||
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1.9
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Brash
Chet Baker |
5:53 |
Decca Records releases high-fidelity digital transfers of the three original Chet Baker in Paris albums originally released on Barclay Records: Chet Baker Quartet Volume 1 and 2 and Chet Baker and his quintet with Bobby Jaspar, remastered from original master tapes.
In October 1955, Chet Baker and his Quartet were to give 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 only way he knew: in music.
Volume One brings together the first two sessions recorded on October 11 and 14, 1955. With Richard “Dick” Twardzik on piano, Jimmy Bond on bass and Peter Littmann on drums, Chet performs eight originals of Robert L. ‘Bob’ Zieff ("Rondette," "Pièce-Caprice," "Mid-Forte," "Re-Search," "Pomp," "Sad Walk," "Just Duo," "Brash") plus a solitary contribution from Twardzik ("The Girl From Greenland.")
192 kHz / 24-bit PCM and 11.2896 MHz DSD – Universal Music Division Decca Records France Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.53 -0.54 to -0.52 | -17.83 -19.39 to -16.21 | -14.84 -16.60 to -13.40 | 12 11 to 14 | |
| 1 | Rondette | -0.52 | -16.55 | -13.4 | 11 |
| 2 | Piece Caprice | -0.53 | -17.60 | -14.6 | 11 |
| 3 | Mid-Forte | -0.52 | -16.21 | -13.4 | 11 |
| 4 | Re-Search | -0.52 | -16.99 | -14.0 | 11 |
| 5 | Pomp | -0.53 | -17.91 | -14.8 | 12 |
| 6 | Sad Walk | -0.54 | -19.36 | -16.4 | 13 |
| 7 | Just Duo | -0.53 | -18.39 | -15.4 | 12 |
| 8 | The Girl From Greenland | -0.53 | -19.39 | -16.6 | 14 |
| 9 | Brash | -0.52 | -18.07 | -15.0 | 12 |