Ballads for Two

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Ballads for Two
Studio album by Chet Baker and Wolfgang Lackerschmid

Publication
(s)

1979

admission

1979

Label (s) Sandra Music Production

Title (number)

7th

running time

37:18

occupation Chet Baker (trumpet)
Wolfgang Lackerschmid (vibraphone)

Studio (s)

Sugar factory recording studio, Stuttgart

chronology
Chet Baker: This Is Always
(1979)
Wolfgang Lackerschmid: Mallet Connection
(1978)
Ballads for Two Chet Baker with Wolfgang Lackerschmid
(1979)

Ballads for Two is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker and vibraphonist Wolfgang Lackerschmid . The album was recorded in 1979 and released under the Sandra Music Production label.

background

The two musicians continued their cooperation in November 1979 with the Inak album Chet Baker / Wolfgang Lackerschmid , in which Larry Coryell , Buster Williams and Tony Williams were also involved.

Track list

  • Chet Baker / Wolfgang Lackerschmid: Ballads for Two (Sandra Music Productions - SMP 2102)
  1. Blue Bossa ( Kenny Dorham ) - 3:51
  2. Five Years Ago - 3:49
  3. Why Shouldn't You Cry - 4:44
  4. Dessert (Wolfgang Lackerschmid, Chet Baker) - 6:58
  5. Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise ( Sigmund Romberg , Oscar Hammerstein II ) - 6:10
  6. You Don't Know What Love Is ( Gene de Paul , Don Raye ) - 7:53
  7. Waltz for Susan - 3:53

All compositions come from Wolfgang Lackerschmid except for the marked ones.

reception

Bob Rusch gave the album four (out of 5) stars in Allmusic and said that this was a record that emphasized less rhythm than timbre, pitch and reverberation. This would also be an avant-garde Chet Baker with no gimmicks, who was only interested in developing, inventing and creating. As a result it is also a “very nice creativity; Art for art's sake . Wolfgang Lackerschmid played the vibraphone in a way that Red Norvo and Gary Burton owe more than Milt Jackson to , and proved himself to be a creator and artist in his ups and downs with the trumpeter. Bravos for both artists. "

Richard Cook and Brian Morton rated the recordings in the Penguin Guide to Jazz with three (out of four) stars and said the duo session was "nice, but not more".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the Chet Baker albums , jazzdisco.org
  2. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 16, 2019)
  3. Chet Baker / Wolfgang Lackerschmid: Ballads for Two at Discogs
  4. Review of Bob Rusch's album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  5. Cook & Morton, 2nd Edition 1994, p. 67