{"product_id":"chet-baker-jack-sheldon-in-perfect-harmony-the-lost-album","title":"Chet Baker \u0026 Jack Sheldon\t- In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJAZZ DETECTIVE PRESENTS NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCHET BAKER\/JACK SHELDON SET IN PERFECT HARMONY: THE LOST ALBUM\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAS LIMITED-EDITION RECORD STORE DAY LP RELEASE ON APRIL 20\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNewly Unearthed Studio Date from 1972 Featuring the Trumpeters\/Vocalists with a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTop-Flight Band of L.A. Musicians Arrives on CD April 26\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease is Co-Produced by “Jazz Detective” Zev Feldman and Famed Film Producer Frank Marshall,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWho Discovered the Recordings in the Family Garage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eZev Feldman’s Jazz Detective label will present a previously unheard musical treasure on Record Store Day\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2024, as the archival imprint releases In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album, a hitherto unknown 1972 studio\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003erecording featuring trumpeters\/vocalists Chet Baker and Jack Sheldon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe collection will be released on April 20 as a limited 180-gram audiophile LP, mastered from the original\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eanalog tapes by engineer Matthew Lutthans at the Mastering Lab in Salina, KS, followed by a CD release on\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eApril 26.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe sextet date is the third release featuring Baker from award-winning archival producer Feldman, succeeding\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe previous Live in Paris: The Radio France Recordings (1983-1984) (Elemental Music, 2021) and Blue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRoom: The 1989 VARA Studio Sessions in Holland (Jazz Detective, 2022). Both titles were issued in partnership\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewith Barcelona-based Jordi Soley and Carlos Agustin Calembert of Elemental Music.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Perfect Harmony is co-produced by the legendary, hit-making film producer Frank Marshall, whose\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eglittering resumé includes the Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, and Jason Bourne franchises,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eamong many other box office blockbusters. Marshall’s father was jazz guitarist and composer Jack Marshall; he\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis a featured player on the Baker-Sheldon recordings, which were cut at United Audio, the Tustin, CA, studio\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efacility he operated with partner Hank Quinn, who co-produced the original ’72 date. Veteran music executive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand TV\/film producer, Jeff Pollack —whose recent credits include The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLaurel Canyon: A Place in Time, Rhythm + Flow and McCartney: 3,2,1 — is an executive producer on the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ealbum.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBesides the leaders and Marshall, the session features three top Los Angeles rhythm players: pianist Dave\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrishberg (who later penned some of the witty tunes the Sheldon famously sang for ABC’s Saturday-morning\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003echildren’s programming, Schoolhouse Rock), bassist Joe Mondragon, and drummer Nick Ceroli.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeldman says, !Co-producing this album with the great film producer Frank Marshall, seeing it crystallize and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecome together, has been one of the biggest thrills of my career….These recordings are simply remarkable, and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI\"m grateful that we\"re able to keep finding gems like this that have been tucked away for so many years.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn August 2022, Frank Marshall brought the tapes that became In Perfect Harmony to Feldman. Marshall had\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebeen going through boxes in storage from the family's Lido Isle home and recalls in his notes for the package,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The sessions went well, and, when they finished mixing, Dad took the tapes to L.A. to shop them. He had\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eseveral record labels interested, but on September 20, 1973, he died suddenly of a heart attack. The tapes got\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epacked away in our garage and were never released. Until now. After 50 years in storage, we can finally enjoy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand celebrate this long-lost gem of an album.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis session was projected as one of the first in years to feature Chet Baker in a leadership role. He had been\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elargely inactive in the studio since suffering a savage assault on the street in the San Francisco Bay area in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAugust 1966. The beating broke several of the musician’s teeth and forced him to be fitted with dentures, which\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eleft him uncomfortable and wary of playing. But Sheldon, a close friend and peer of Baker, tried to coax him\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eback to work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“One day during the summer of 1972,” Frank Marshall recalls, “Jack Sheldon had an idea: ‘Just think, Chetie, if\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewe do an album together, you’ll only have to play on half of it!’ Chet liked the idea, but was still hesitant. To\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emake him comfortable, the two Jacks did what they did best — get great musicians together.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn his notes devoted to the music, historian Richard S. Ginell writes, “This newly-discovered session comes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efrom a time when Sheldon was riding high on the Merv Griffin show while Baker was struggling, out of the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emusic for a while trying to repair his embouchure. Jazz historians say that Baker’s ‘comeback’ started in 1973,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebut this session predates that by about a year. Sheldon and Jack Marshall set it up as a way to ease their friend\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003egradually onto the scene again by sharing the date and enlisting first-class help from some of L.A.’s finest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eresident jazzers.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSplitting the vocal chores down the middle with five leads apiece, Baker and Sheldon essayed largely standard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003erepertoire (augmented by one Sheldon original and a Mexican ballad he performed in Spanish) in relaxed style.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA lone instrumental, the bossa nova “Once I Loved” rounds out the album.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe approaches of the chill, laid-back Baker and the exuberant, ebullient Sheldon were a study in contrast.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGinell says, “Sheldon had a bright, brash sound rooted in the bebop gospel according to Dizzy Gillespie. Baker,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eby contrast, was a cooler customer, more in the Miles Davis manner, and as such became a poster boy for what\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewas labeled West Coast Jazz, a label that was plastered rightly or wrongly on anyone who came from\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCalifornia. They differed even more as singers — Sheldon ever the lively hipster who sometimes seemed to be\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ekidding the lyrics in the Great American Songbook; Baker ever the callow, fluid, subtly swinging presence who\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ealways sounded as if he was barely out of his teens.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHappily, after half a century on the shelf, the tapes were in good shape, and engineer Lutthans writes, “In\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDecember 2023, I had the pleasure of threading up the tape on the late Doug Sax\"s customized, all-tubeelectronics\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etape machine feeding the tube amplified Neumann lathe, hitting play, and cutting the masters 100%\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eall analog. Enjoy!”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTRACK LISTING:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChet Baker - trumpet, vocals\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJack Sheldon - trumpet, vocals\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJack Marshall - guitar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDave Frishberg - piano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoe Mondragon - bass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNick Ceroli - drums\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSide A\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. This Can’t Be Love (2:12)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. Just Friends (2:29)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Too Blue (4:20)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. But Not For Me (3:35)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Historia de un Amor (3:06)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. Once I Loved (3:46)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSide B\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. You Fascinate Me (3:01)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. When I Fall In Love (5:05)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. I Cried For You (3:32)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. I’m Old Fashioned (2:31)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Evil Blues (2:04)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecorded in 1972 at United Audio in Tustin, CA\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"South Records Ltd","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":64322586149241,"sku":null,"price":23.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0973\/1463\/6153\/files\/CBakerJSheldon_InPerfectHarmony_LP-1_b04c6cff-8320-49cf-bdcf-43b257444dbd.jpg?v=1787902315","url":"https:\/\/vinyl-relic.com\/products\/chet-baker-jack-sheldon-in-perfect-harmony-the-lost-album","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}