Chet Baker - Live In Paris: The Radio France Recordings 1983-1984Two CD set. Live In Paris: The Radio France Recordings includes previously unreleased live performances from 1983 1984 by the famed trumpeter vocalist Chet Baker. The dazzling performances by his drumless trios are complemented with essays by journalists Ashley Kahn and Franck Bergerot, and Pascal Rozat of INA France. Plus, interviews and statements from Baker sidemen, Sonny Rollins, Archie Shepp, David Murray, Carla Bley, John Zorn, Carlos Santana,

Flip Phillips (saxophone)

and the usual Ace attention to detail in the annotation

to the rank of innovator whose blues improvisations had a level of compositional cogency of one "who spends days or weeks writing a given passage"

drummers Frank Gariepy

That's how much time Kino and Hermes allot to each new place they visit before drifting off again

When they went north as part of the army three years ago

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but when a male friend asks her to date

73 by Robert Kahn are presented on this album as only the second-ever commercially-released recordings of these works

received outstanding reviews in Gramophone and Songlines Magazine

Some of the themes on this new album include counting five ducks

There were also some hot new kids on the block like Buck Owens