CHET BAKER - Chet On Poetry

MONO JAZZ

£30.58

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: MJC129001LP
Barcode: 8019991886496
Release Date: 28 Jun 2024
Genre: Jazz

• FIRST-EVER REISSUE OF THIS CULT RECORD BY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT JAZZ MUSICIANS OF ALL TIMES
• HIGH QUALITY REMASTERING FROM THE ORIGINAL TAPES
• FULL LYRICS AND EXTENSIVE LINER NOTES IN ITALIAN AND ENGLISH

“«CHET ON POETRY» IS HIS LAST RECORD IN STUDIO, BUT INDEED IT DIFFERS FROM THE OTHERS AND IT IS ONE OF THE BEST AND THE MOST CHARMING ONE. CHET WAS IN A GOOD SHAPE IN ROME, IN THOSE WINTER DAYS, AND HE HAD THE RIGHT PARTNERS. FIRST OF ALL YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO HIM WHEN HE READS POETRY.”
THIS IS HOW THE GREAT ITALIAN CRITIC FRANCO FAYENZ INTRODUCES THIS RECORDING IN HIS LINER NOTES. CHET ON POETRY ACTUALLY IS WEST COAST’S TRUMPET SUPERSTAR LAST STUDIO RECORDING. CHET ON POETRY IS CHET’S SPIRITUAL TESTAMENT IN MUSIC AND PROBABLY ONE OF HIS MOST MEANINGFUL RECORDS. “CHET ON POETRY WAS NOT ONLY THE PRODUCTION OF A RECORD, BUT ALSO A PATH OF EXPERIMENTATION IN ANOTHER FIELD, WHICH WAS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE PROFOUND HUMANCONNECTION BETWEEN MYSELF, CHET, OUR POET FRIEND MAURIZIO GUERCINI AND LATER ON GIANLUCA MANZI.”, STATES NICOLA STILO, ARTISTIC PRODUCER, COMPOSER OF MOST OF THE MUSIC, FLUTE AND GUITAR PLAYER OF THIS ALBUM. FROM THE SURREAL POETRY WHICH INTRODUCES DUKE ELLINGTON’S ‘IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD’ TO THE BLUESY BALLAD ‘ALMOST BLUE’, WHICH ELVIS COSTELLO DEDICATED TO CHET AND CHET PICKS UP FOR THIS LAST MASTERPIECE, DELIVERS INTENSITY AND GOES BEYOND ANY TIME CRITERIA. TAKEN OFF THE ORIGINAL TAPES AND REMASTERED WITH TODAY’S AMAZING TECHNOLOGIES, THIS COMPACT DISC EDITION OF CHET ON POETRY, CURATED BY MONO JAZZ LABEL, REPRESENT AN INDISPENSABLE ADDITION TO ANY SERIOUS CHET BAKER’S DISCOGRAPHY.

SIDE A
A1. IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD
A2. PARTY IS OVER
A3. WITH SADNESS
A4. LIKE THE PRECEDENT
SIDE B
B1. DEEP ARABESQUE
B2. CHET’S BLUES
B3. ALMOST BLUE
B4. WAITING FOR CHET