Producer Frank Marshall on Resurrecting a Lost Album by Jazz Greats Chet Baker and Jack Sheldon, 52 Years After It Was Recorded
20.05.2024 - 03:37
/ variety.com
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Lost, completed studio albums by revered trumpet player and jazz vocalist Chet Baker don’t pop up every year. But “In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album,” which was just released after sitting unheard for 52 years, has some even more novel wrinkles to it.
For one, the previously unreleased 11-song set is a full-on collaboration with a second trumpeter-singer, Jack Sheldon — who may be best known to fans of a certain age as a familiar voice from the “Schoolhouse Rock” television show’s songs. Although Baker and Sheldon were pals who played together live, this newly unearthed project marks the only time they ever went into the studio together to make an album.
But here’s maybe the biggest novelty of them all: a co-producer on the new release is Frank Marshall, the famous film producer who’s known for some of history’s biggest movie franchises, including the Indiana Jones, “Jurassic Park” and Jason Bourne tentpole series. Marshall might seem like an unlikely choice to suddenly dip his toe into releasing archival jazz, but there’s a sound explanation: His father, Jack Marshall, was a well-known jazz musician and Hollywood composer who played guitar on the sessions, and who co-owned the Orange County studio where the lost album was cut.
Marshall had it in the back of his mind for many years to play the tape he’d come across in storage that was marked “Chet and Jack,” but never did until two years ago, when he realized he had a serious find on his hands. Marshall’s partners on the project include Zev Feldman, the founder of Jazz Detective Records, as well as a significant figure for his work with the Resonance and Elemental labels, which specialize in just this kind of
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