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Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe

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Released
  
1959

Artist
  
Chet Baker

Producer
  
Orrin Keepnews

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
43:02

Release date
  
1959

Label
  
Riverside Records

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Recorded
  
July 21 & 22, 1959 Reeves Sound Studios, New York City

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Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker featuring show tunes by Lerner and Loewe which was recorded in 1959 and released on the Riverside label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album with 3 stars stating "these readings are comparatively understated. That said, the timelessness of the melodies, coupled with the assembled backing aggregate, make Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959) a memorable concept album".

Track listing

All compositions by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe

  1. "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" - 4:16
  2. "I Could Have Danced All Night" - 3:43
  3. "The Heather on the Hill" - 5:04
  4. "On the Street Where You Live" - 8:37
  5. "Almost Like Being in Love" - 4:53
  6. "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" - 4:35
  7. "I Talk to the Trees" - 5:51
  8. "Show Me" - 6:30
  • Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City on July 21 (tracks 2 & 6-8) and July 22 (tracks 1 & 3-5), 1959.

    • Personnel

  • Chet Baker - trumpet
  • Herbie Mann - flute, tenor saxophone
  • Zoot Sims - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
  • Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone
  • Bob Corwin (tracks 1 & 3-5), Bill Evans (tracks 2 & 6-8) - piano
  • Earl May - bass
  • Clifford Jarvis - drums

    • Songs

    1I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face4:13
    2I Could Have Danced All Night3:41
    3The Heather on the Hill4:56

    References

    Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe Wikipedia
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