Release Date: 30 December 2014
Label: Poll Winner Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436542017985
Description
This release presents the he complete original album 'Quartet: Russ Freeman and Chet Baker' (Pacific Jazz PJ-1232), which would mark the last collaboration ever between the pianist and trumpeter after a fruitful association that had begun in 1952 and produced dozens of recorded gems, including this final album.
As a bonus, a live performance by an earlier edition of the Chet Baker-Russ Freeman Quartet, recorded in Santa Cruz, California, in 1954, and also presented here in its entirety.
The Poll Winners label is devoted to the CD reissue of albums that received the maximum 5-star rating in a DownBeat album review. This only rarely happened, and most of the DownBeat albums have become true classics revered by all music lovers. These new editions present the complete original 5-star albums, which are expanded to include interesting bonus albums or tracks by the artist at the peak of their talents.
Tracklisting
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach
Dinah Washington
Art Pepper
Sonny Rollins
Thelonious Monk
Charles Mingus
Sonny Stitt Quartet
Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges
Chet Baker & Russ Freeman
Chet Baker & Russ Freeman
