CHET BAKER & JACK SHELDON - IN PERFECT HARMONY: THE LOST ALBUM VINYL (SUPER LTD. ED. 'RSD' 180G)

SUPER LIMITED EDITION 'RECORD STORE DAY' 180G VINYL

Available on Saturday 20th April in-store only from 8am. Strictly 1 per customer. Any remaining stock will be made available online on Monday 22nd April at 8pm.

Release Date: 20th April 2024

"In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album, a hitherto unknown 1972 studio recording featuring trumpeters / vocalists Chet Baker and Jack Sheldon. Co-produced by “Jazz Detective” Zev Feldman and Famed Film Producer Frank Marshall, who discovered the recordings in the family garage. Marshall’s father was jazz guitarist and composer Jack Marshall; he is a featured player on the Baker-Sheldon recordings, which were cut at United Audio, the Tustin, CA, studio facility he operated with partner Hank Quinn, who co-produced the original ’72 date. Veteran music executive and TV/film producer, Jeff Pollack —whose recent credits include The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash, Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time, Rhythm + Flow and McCartney: 3,2,1 — is an executive producer on the album. Besides the leaders and Marshall, the session features three top Los Angeles rhythm players: pianist Dave Frishberg (who later penned some of the witty tunes the Sheldon famously sang for ABC’s Saturday-morning children’s programming, Schoolhouse Rock), bassist Joe Mondragon, and drummer Nick Ceroli. Feldman says, This session was projected as one of the first in years to feature Chet Baker in a leadership role. He had been largely inactive in the studio since suffering a savage assault on the street in the San Francisco Bay area in August 1966. The beating broke several of the musician’s teeth and forced him to be fitted with dentures, which left him uncomfortable and wary of playing. But Sheldon, a close friend and peer of Baker, tried to coax him back to work.""