Chet Baker And His Quintet With Bobby Jaspar: In Paris Vol. 3 LP ETJS-49 and a fascinating new interview

and a fascinating new interview with Rollins himself reflecting upon the album in conversation with Blue Note President Don Was

Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans

This is one of the very best small-group records Ellington ever made — a perfectly integrated set of music that truly swings the blues

Jeremy Corren on piano

Blues For Yolande

Chet Baker And His Quintet With Bobby Jaspar: In Paris Vol. 3 LP ETJS-49 and a fascinating new interviewIn October 1955, Chet Baker and his Quartet gave a series of concerts, notably in France. Many French people expected a playboy and dilettante trumpeter to get off the plane; the man who arrived was someone who lived only for, and by, his art. A first album recorded in Paris placed him in the jazz avant garde; the series of recordings that followed formed the private journal of someone so incapable of hiding his emotions that he sublimated them in the