Chet Baker and Crew

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Released February 1957 Release date 1993 Label Pacific Jazz Records		Artist Chet Baker Producer Richard Bock Genre Jazz

Recorded July 24-25 & 31, 1956Forum Theater, Los Angeles Length 63:12CD reissue with bonus tracks Chet Baker & Crew(1956) Chet Baker Big Band(1956) Similar Chet Baker albums, Jazz albums

Chet Baker & Crew is a studio album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker which was recorded in Los Angeles in 1956 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.

Reception

Lindsay Planer of Allmusic states, "The numbers heard on Chet Baker & Crew were among a prolific flurry of recordings Baker was involved in during the last week of July 1956 — fresh from an extended European stay".

Track listing

"To Mickey's Memory" (Harvey Leonard) - 5:12
"Slightly Above Moderate" (Bob Zieff) - 6:59
"Halema" (Phil Urso) - 3:51
"Revelation" (Gerry Mulligan) - 3:58
"Something For Liza" (Al Cohn) - 4:05
"Lucius Lu" (Urso) - 5:34
"Worryin' the Life Out of Me" (Miff Mole, Bob Russell, Frank Signorelli) - 2:59
"Medium Rock" (Zieff) - 5:30
"To Mickey's Memory" [Alternate Take] (Leonard) - 5:25 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Jumpin' Off a Clef" (Al Haig) - 4:55 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Chippyin'" (Leonard) - 3:20 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Pawnee Junction" (Bill Loughborough) - 4:01 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Music to Dance By" (Cohn) - 4:35 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Line for Lyons" (Mulligan, Loughbrough) - 2:48 Bonus track on CD reissue