Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon 

In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Studio Album

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JAZZ DETECTIVE PRESENTS NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD CHET BAKER/JACK SHELDON SET IN PERFECT HARMONY: THE LOST ALBUM AS LIMITED-EDITION RECORD STORE DAY LP RELEASE ON APRIL 20

Newly Unearthed Studio Date from 1972 Featuring the Trumpeters/Vocalists with a
Top-Flight Band of L.A. Musicians Arrives on CD April 26. Release is Co-Produced by “Jazz Detective” Zev Feldman and Famed Film Producer Frank Marshall, Who Discovered the Recordings in the Family Garage. Zev Feldman’s Jazz Detective label will present a previously unheard musical treasure on Record Store Day
2024, as the archival imprint releases In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album, a hitherto unknown 1972 studio recording featuring trumpeters/vocalists Chet Baker and Jack Sheldon.

The collection will be released on April 20 as a limited 180-gram audiophile LP, mastered from the original analog tapes by engineer Matthew Lutthans at the Mastering Lab in Salina, KS, followed by a CD release on April 26.

The sextet date is the third release featuring Baker from award-winning archival producer Feldman, succeeding the previous Live in Paris: The Radio France Recordings (1983-1984) (Elemental Music, 2021) and Blue Room: The 1989 VARA Studio Sessions in Holland (Jazz Detective, 2022). Both titles were issued in partnership with Barcelona-based Jordi Soley and Carlos Agustin Calembert of Elemental Music.

In Perfect Harmony is co-produced by the legendary, hit-making film producer Frank Marshall, whose glittering resumé includes the Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, and Jason Bourne franchises, among many other box office blockbusters. 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, !Co-producing this album with the great film producer Frank Marshall, seeing it crystallize and come together, has been one of the biggest thrills of my career….These recordings are simply remarkable, and
I””m grateful that we””re able to keep finding gems like this that have been tucked away for so many years.”

In August 2022, Frank Marshall brought the tapes that became In Perfect Harmony to Feldman. Marshall had been going through boxes in storage from the family’s Lido Isle home and recalls in his notes for the package, “The sessions went well, and, when they finished mixing, Dad took the tapes to L.A. to shop them. He had
several record labels interested, but on September 20, 1973, he died suddenly of a heart attack. The tapes got packed away in our garage and were never released. Until now. After 50 years in storage, we can finally enjoy and celebrate this long-lost gem of an album.”

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.
“One day during the summer of 1972,” Frank Marshall recalls, “Jack Sheldon had an idea: ‘Just think, Chetie, if we do an album together, you’ll only have to play on half of it!’ Chet liked the idea, but was still hesitant. To make him comfortable, the two Jacks did what they did best — get great musicians together.”
In his notes devoted to the music, historian Richard S. Ginell writes, “This newly-discovered session comes from a time when Sheldon was riding high on the Merv Griffin show while Baker was struggling, out of the music for a while trying to repair his embouchure. Jazz historians say that Baker’s ‘comeback’ started in 1973,
but this session predates that by about a year. Sheldon and Jack Marshall set it up as a way to ease their friend gradually onto the scene again by sharing the date and enlisting first-class help from some of L.A.’s finest resident jazzers.”
Splitting the vocal chores down the middle with five leads apiece, Baker and Sheldon essayed largely standard repertoire (augmented by one Sheldon original and a Mexican ballad he performed in Spanish) in relaxed style.
A lone instrumental, the bossa nova “Once I Loved” rounds out the album.
The approaches of the chill, laid-back Baker and the exuberant, ebullient Sheldon were a study in contrast. Ginell says, “Sheldon had a bright, brash sound rooted in the bebop gospel according to Dizzy Gillespie. Baker, by contrast, was a cooler customer, more in the Miles Davis manner, and as such became a poster boy for what was labeled West Coast Jazz, a label that was plastered rightly or wrongly on anyone who came from California. They differed even more as singers — Sheldon ever the lively hipster who sometimes seemed to be kidding the lyrics in the Great American Songbook; Baker ever the callow, fluid, subtly swinging presence who
always sounded as if he was barely out of his teens.”
Happily, after half a century on the shelf, the tapes were in good shape, and engineer Lutthans writes, “In December 2023, I had the pleasure of threading up the tape on the late Doug Sax””s customized, all-tube electronics tape machine feeding the tube amplified Neumann lathe, hitting play, and cutting the masters 100% all analog. Enjoy!”

Chet Baker – trumpet, vocals
Jack Sheldon – trumpet, vocals
Jack Marshall – guitar
Dave Frishberg – piano
Joe Mondragon – bass
Nick Ceroli – drums

Recorded in 1972 at United Audio in Tustin, CA”

ARTIEST

Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon 

TITEL

In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Studio Album

RELEASE DATUM

20/04/2024

RECORD LABEL

Jazz Detective Records

DISTRIBUTOR

Intermusic

TRACKLIST

Side A
1. This Can’t Be Love (2:12)
2. Just Friends (2:29)
3. Too Blue (4:20)
4. But Not For Me (3:35)
5. Historia de un Amor (3:06)
6. Once I Loved (3:46)

Side B
1. You Fascinate Me (3:01)
2. When I Fall In Love (5:05)
3. I Cried For You (3:32)
4. I’m Old Fashioned (2:31)
5. Evil Blues (2:04)

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