Chet Baker and Crew STRUT271LP clocking in at a brisk

clocking in at a brisk (for him) 86 minutes

mysterious in the way that the early hours so often are

was the brainchild of drummer

Barney Wilen (saxophone) called on the band he had been playing with for weeks at the Club Saint-Germain for the soundtrack to this tour through the nightime Paris of the 1950s- Kenny Dorham (trumpet)

Chet Baker and Crew STRUT271LP clocking in at a briskThe photographs of William Claxton define the essence of cool his stunningly intimate images of icons like Chet Baker combine technical innovation and an unerring sense of the moment to forge a singular aesthetic he defined as jazz for the eyes Jason Ankeny (AllMusic) Chet Baker returned to the United States from a long European tour in early 1956. Although the tour was successful in making him a better known figure in the Old Continent, it also