http://jazztimes.com/articles/20047-elv ... in-ireland
Elvis on Chet Baker, “Shipbuilding”
I had got it in my head that we wanted trumpet, and I didn’t know any trumpet player in England that I thought would necessarily be right to do it—except maybe my father. There was definitely a sense that the sound I wanted was a particular plaintiveness that—I was completely obsessed with the ’Round About Midnight record by Miles; more than Kind of Blue or some more famous record. I actually had a conversation with Wynton [Marsalis] about doing it—this was kind of like when he had just made one record. We had one conversation on the phone, and I think he was totally bewildered some guy from England calls him to come play on a record, and he couldn’t do it. It wasn’t until later that I realized that, “Hey, that’s that guy I spoke to on the phone, that Wynton; that famous Wynton guy’s this guy I talked to about doing the record.” So, Wynton’s not going to do it; guess Miles isn’t going to do it—who knew how to ask him?
And there wasn’t anybody in England I trust, and I open the Melody Maker and Chet Baker is playing the next day. And he’s only my favorite trumpet player—as far as I can tell, alive—that I can actually get to speak to, or so I thought. Maybe if I go down there and ask if he’ll play, all he can say is, “No.” I go down to the club; everybody’s talking right through everything. He’s playing so beautifully. He isn’t playing standards. He actually has a band that knows his material, which is very rare for him. He was mostly playing “I’ll Remember You” over and over again, but [that night] he was playing these really beautiful modern compositions. And at the interval he just walked off the stand, and he went up to the bar and bought a drink and nobody bothered him—[the audience] just kept on eating and talking and yakking. I went up to him and introduced myself—he had no idea; he had never heard of me. I said, “I’m a musician. Is there any way in the world you would consider coming and playing on a session.” He said, “Well, yeah, I’ll do it for scale.” I said, “How about we give you double scale?”
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Those shows from 1983 , during the recording of
Punch The Clock , are being released in October 2016.
http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/breakin ... e-s-launch
A previously unreleased Chet Baker recording,
Live In London, taped during a six-night stint at the now long-gone Covent Garden jazz venue, The Canteen, in 1983, is set for release on 28 October on the Ubuntu Music label.
Backed by pianist John Horler’s Trio of bassist Jim Richardson and drummer Tony Mann, Baker’s playing is on fine form throughout (even though he was in poor physical health at the time). The venue had previously housed The Blitz, a favourite haunt of London's New Romantics, before subsequently being converted into the 200-seater, up-market jazz venue, running from 1979 for five years. It saw regular performances by many US jazz stars, particularly singers such as Jimmy Witherspoon, Slim Gaillard and Mose Allison.
Recorded by Richardson on a basic Sony TCS tape recorder placed on his bass cabinet, the sound on the album has been restored, with tape hisses, pops and distortion removed to create an incredibly clear and full-sounding finished set of 10 songs that will be released as a double CD. Commenting on the music Richardson said: "I have a huge quantity of Chet Baker recordings but what we have here is the best, in my opinion.” The 10 songs featured on the album are: ‘Have You Met Miss Jones’, ‘Beatrice’, ‘For Minors Only’, ‘The Touch Of Your Lips’, 'Margarine’, ‘With a Song in My Heart’, ‘Leaving’, ‘I Remember You’, ‘My Funny Valentine’ and ‘I’ll Remember April’ all featuring spirited and sympathetic playing from Baker and the band.
The album will be launched at Ronnie Scott’s on 22 and 23 August and will see pianist Horler reunited with Richardson and Mann for the first time since their 1983 gigs with Baker. These performances will also feature trumpeter Quentin Collins, saxophonist (and Jim’s son) Leo Richardson and a special guest appearance by revered Brit-jazz singer Norma Winstone.
– Mike Flynn
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I asked the label for the recording dates & they confirm they were during PTC recording schedule.
The recordings were made on 28th March-2nd April 1983.
Hope you enjoy them. The Chet Baker Estate believes this has captured some of Chet's best playing.
http://www.ubuntumanagementgroup.com/bl ... /announcin
I suppose I should now try & find that
Melody Maker ad.....
....hence the slurred Van came out with:
