Chet Baker - Broken Wing (1978)
{Jazz in Paris 08, Gitanes 013 043-2}

TRACK LISTINGS
1 Broken wing					7:08
2 Black eyes					8:35
3 Oh you crazy moon				7:02
4 How deep is the ocean				10:08
5 Blue Gilles					11:13
6 Black eyes (alternative take)			8:46
7 How deep is the ocean (alternative take)	8:33

PERSONNEL
Chet Baker - trumpet
Phil Markowitz - piano
Jean-Francois Jenny Clarke - double bass
Jeff Brillinger - drums

The Jazz in Paris--Broken Wing CD presents a 1978 quartet recording by the trumpeter Chet Baker and adds two lengthy alternative takes to the LP from which it's derived. The Paris rhythm section--Phil Markowitz on piano, Jean-Francois Jenny-Clarke on bass and Jeff Brillinger on drums--provide ideal support with some particularly impressive bass solos. Chet's wistful singing is heard on "Oh, You Crazy Moon" but otherwise his poignant trumpet, lyrical and beautifully controlled, is predominant. The spirit of Miles Davis hovers at Chet's shoulder, but he has his own tone and phrasing, less dramatic but subtly insinuating. "Blue Gilles", a Baker original, is a very slow, mournful lament dedicated to Gilles Gautherin, the producer of this session. Wayne Shorter's "Black Eyes", which comes in two versions, has a medium-tempo bossa nova beat, but otherwise it's the slower tempos, at which Baker excelled, that determine the reflective ambience of this late December Franco-American encounter. --Graham Colombé

Recorded December 28, 1978 in Paris