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At the Salt Peanuts Club 1981
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This collection presents, for the first time ever on CD, a
relaxed performance from Chet Baker’s final years.
He is heard playing in a jazz club in Cologne, Germany,
in the company of three other American musicians: Jon
Eardley on flugelhorn, saxophonist Bob Mover, and
pianist Dennis Luxion. German bassist Rocky Knauer
completes the group, to which drummer Burkhart Ruckert
is added on a few tracks.
These sets include Baker’s only known version of Jon
Eardley’s “Belle Meade”, as well as readings of tunes
rarely recorded by the trumpeter, such as Luxion’s “Prayer
for the Newborn” and Jimmy Heath’s “Resonant
Emotions”.
Includes 8-page booklet
These recordings were made on May 21, 23 & 25, 1981 at the Salt Peanuts Club
in Cologne (Köln), Germany. Baker is backed by three other American musicians:
Jon Eardley, Bob Mover and Dennis Luxion.
Trumpeter Jon Eardley (who plays flugelhorn here) was born on September 30,
1928 in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He moved to New York City in 1953, where he
played with Phil Woods (1954), Gerry Mulligan (1954-57), and Hal McIntyre (1956).
Following that he returned to his hometown and played there until 1963, when he
moved to Belgium. In 1969 he moved to Cologne, Germany, playing there with
Harald Banter and Chet Baker, and working through the 1980s. He died on April
1, 1991, in Lambermont near Verviers, in Belgium. The Salt Peanuts sets presented
here are the only known preserved collaborations between Baker and Eardley.
Saxophonist Robert “Bob” Mover was born on March 22, 1952 in Boston,
Massachusetts. Still active, he plays alto, tenor and soprano (only alto and soprano
on these sides). Two testimonies survive of his association with Baker in the 1970s:
a three-tune radio broadcast taped at the Half Note, in New York, in November
1973 with Harold Danko on piano, Michael Moore on bass, and Jimmy Madison on
drums, and a four-tune concert recording made in Nice, France, on July 24, 1975
with Larry Ridley on bass, and David Lee on drums. No other recordings of Mover
with Baker seem to exist after the Salt Peanuts Club performance included here. |
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ARTISTS
Chet Baker (trumpet, vocals); Jon Eardley (flugelhorn); Bob Mover (alto and soprano sax); Dennis Luxion (piano); Rocky Knauer (bass); Burkhard Ruckert (drums) |
TRACKS
CD 1:
01 PRAYER FOR THE NEWBORN 7:09
02 MY IDEAL [vocals by Chet Baker] 8:04
03 LADY BIRD 7:09
04 RESONANT EMOTIONS 9:20
05 RAY’S IDEA 13:22
06 MY FUNNY VALENTINE [vocals by Chet Baker] 7:47
07 IF I SHOULD LOSE YOU 14:22
Total Time: 67:15
CD 2:
01 ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT 9:36
02 BEATRICE 14:44
03 BELLE MEADE 12:23
04 I REMEMBER YOU [vocals by Chet Baker] 10:09
05 NIGHT BIRD 10:15
06 TEMPUS FUGIT 8:39
Total Time: 65:48 |
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