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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

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Recorded
  
July 24-25 & 31, 1956 Forum Theater, Los Angeles

Length
  
63:12 CD 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.

Contents

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

  1. "To Mickey's Memory" (Harvey Leonard) - 5:12
  2. "Slightly Above Moderate" (Bob Zieff) - 6:59
  3. "Halema" (Phil Urso) - 3:51
  4. "Revelation" (Gerry Mulligan) - 3:58
  5. "Something For Liza" (Al Cohn) - 4:05
  6. "Lucius Lu" (Urso) - 5:34
  7. "Worryin' the Life Out of Me" (Miff Mole, Bob Russell, Frank Signorelli) - 2:59
  8. "Medium Rock" (Zieff) - 5:30
  9. "To Mickey's Memory" [Alternate Take] (Leonard) - 5:25 Bonus track on CD reissue
  10. "Jumpin' Off a Clef" (Al Haig) - 4:55 Bonus track on CD reissue
  11. "Chippyin'" (Leonard) - 3:20 Bonus track on CD reissue
  12. "Pawnee Junction" (Bill Loughborough) - 4:01 Bonus track on CD reissue
  13. "Music to Dance By" (Cohn) - 4:35 Bonus track on CD reissue
  14. "Line for Lyons" (Mulligan, Loughbrough) - 2:48 Bonus track on CD reissue
  • Recorded at the Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California on July 24, 1956 (tracks 9-11), July 25, 1956 (tracks 12-14) and July 31, 1956 (tracks 1-8)

    • Personnel

  • Chet Baker - trumpet, vocals on track 14
  • Phil Urso - tenor saxophone
  • Bobby Timmons - piano
  • Jimmy Bond - bass
  • Peter Littman - drums
  • Bill Loughborough - chromatic timpani (tracks 1, 9 & 12)

    • Songs

    1To Mickey's Memory5:16
    2Slightly Above Moderate7:02
    3Halema3:54

    References

    Chet Baker & Crew Wikipedia
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