"I'll Remember April" and "Lover Man" were the two he'd performed with Twardzik and Gullin. "There's a Small Hotel", "Autumn In New York", "Summertime", "You Go To My Head" and "Tenderly" were new. "These Foolish Things" had been in the group's repertoire for some time. Baker chose eight, five of which he'd not previously performed, and three he'd done with Gullin and Twardzik but ten days earlier. Given the new line-up, the session, recorded at Studio Pathe-Magellan in Paris, Monday, Octowas all about standards. On piano here was an unknown-Gérard Gustin who'd just been signed by label head Eddie Barclay. The group's original saxophonist Lars Gullin discovered pianist Dick Twardzik dead in his room weeks earlier, dead of a heroin overdose. The drummer, a Swede named Nils-Bertil "Bert" Dahlander took the place of the quartet's original drummer Peter Littman who'd returned to America.
This Chet Baker album originally issued by the French Barclay label in 1956 features only one original member of his then quartet: bassist Jimmy Bond. He also obviously is a man who cuts no corners and who believes in authenticity. The one man is Fred Thomas, who has self-professed interests in both jazz and photography. Sam Records is a one man, Paris, France-based operation began in 2011.
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