CHET BAKER, trumpet
GLAUCO MASETTI, alto sax (out on 7-8)
GIANNI BASSO, tenor sax (out on 7-8)
RENATO SELLANI, piano
FRANCO CERRI, bass
GENE VICTORY, drums
Chet Baker had a long and complicated relationship
with Italy. It was a country where he was both
imprisoned and adored. His first visit there took place
in 1955, during his first and highly successful European
tour. It was during this tour that the quartet's pianist,
the talented Dick Twardzik, tragically died in Paris
from a heroin overdose. Baker was devastated, and
following Twardzik's death - for which he felt some
level of responsibility - the trumpeter submerged
himself in the drug world and in a self-destructive
spiral which would last for the rest of his life.
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