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ARTIST
BAKER/PIERO UMILIANI, CHET
TITLE
Italian Movies
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
SURVIVAL RESEARCH
CATALOG #
SVVRCH 011LP
SVVRCH 011LP
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
2/14/2020
Italian film composer
Piero Umiliani
began working with the trumpeter and actor
Chet Baker
during the late 1950s. Of part Norwegian and Anglo-Saxon origins, Chesney Henry Baker Jr. was born into a musical family in the small town of Yale, Oklahoma in 1929. After singing in the local church choir, he began playing trombone but soon switched to the smaller and more manageable trumpet. He joined the US Army just after the end of World War II and played in the 298th Army Band while stationed in Berlin and began studying music theory at El Camino College in Los Angeles, following his discharge, but re-enlisted to play in the Sixth Army Band while stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco. Out of the Army for good in 1951, he played with saxophonists
Vido Musso
and
Stan Getz
before joining
Charlie Parker
for a series of West Coast live dates. He then joined the
Gerry Mulligan Quartet
, becoming a mainstay of the Los Angeles jazz scene, until Mulligan's drug bust forced Baker to form a quartet of his own.
Chet Baker & Strings
(WLV 82069LP) was issued by Columbia in 1954 and he began recording for Pacific Jazz the following year; cast in the film
Hell's Horizon
(1955), Baker turned down a Hollywood studio contact to travel to Europe, touring the continent for eight months, which resulted in the album Chet Baker In Europe. Heroin became a significant part of the picture in this era and when he began working with the arranger and conductor
Ezio Leoni
(aka
Len Mercer
) in Milan in 1959, Baker was arrested for drugs and jailed in Pisa, temporarily disrupting the proceedings. Baker and Umiliani first joined forces in 1958 for the crime film
I Soliti Ignoti
(AKA Big Deal on Madonna Street, Persons Unknown or Le Pigeon), reportedly the first instance of jazz being used for an Italian comedy film;
Il Paradiso dell'Uomo
and
Smog
(FOX 010LP) followed.
Italian Movies
draws from the best of Baker and Umiliani's cinematic collaborations, the atmospheric compositions backed by a group of session players centered on drummer
Ralf Ferraro
, acoustic bassist
Berto Pisano
, guitarist
Enzo Grillini
, tenor saxophonist
Livio Cervellieri
, and
Franco Ciari
on vibraphone, along with Baker's expressive trumpet leads and composer Umiliani on piano.
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