Released 1956 Producer Richard Bock Label Blue Note Records | Length 40:07 Release date 1956 Genre Jazz | |
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Recorded October 31, 1956
Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California Playboys
(1956) Quartet Russ Freeman/Chet Baker
(1956) Playboys
(1956) The Art Pepper Quartet
(1956) Artists Chet Baker, Art Pepper, Phil Urso, Clifford Brown Similar Chet Baker albums, Jazz albums | ||
Playboys is a 1956 jazz album featuring trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Art Pepper. The album was the third collaboration between Pepper and Baker, following the successes of The Route and Chet Baker Big Band. All three albums were recorded in 1956.
Contents
Cover
Playboys was reissued in 1961 under the name Picture of Heath after the fifth track (itself a reference to Jimmy Heath, composer of all but two of the tracks). The tracks themselves were presented in a slightly different order, starting with the new title track. Hugh Hefner reportedly objected to the album cover (obviously inspired by Playboy magazine with its near-identical wordmark and pinup photo) and threatened to sue. Perhaps for that reason, when Blue Note Records released Playboys on CD (under the name Picture of Heath), the original pinup cover was replaced with a photo of the artists in the recording studio.
Reception
Lindsay Planer of Allmusic states, "These thoroughly enjoyable and often high-energy sides are perfect for bop connoisseurs as well as mainstream jazz listeners".
Track listing
All compositions by Jimmy Heath except as indicated
- "For Minors Only" - 4:00
- "Minor-Yours " (Art Pepper) - 6:44
- "Resonant Emotions" - 5:41
- "Tynan Tyme" (Pepper) - 5:32
- "Picture of Heath" - 6:44
- "For Miles and Miles" - 6:25
- "C.T.A." - 5:12
1998 CD release
- "Picture of Heath"
- "For Miles and Miles "
- "C.T.A. "
- "For Minors Only"
- "Minor Yours "
- "Resonant Emotions"
- "Tynan Tyme"
Personnel
Songs
1Picture Of Heath6:44
2For Miles And Miles6:24
3CTA5:09