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Playboys (Chet Baker and Art Pepper album)

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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

  1. "For Minors Only" - 4:00
  2. "Minor-Yours " (Art Pepper) - 6:44
  3. "Resonant Emotions" - 5:41
  4. "Tynan Tyme" (Pepper) - 5:32
  5. "Picture of Heath" - 6:44
  6. "For Miles and Miles" - 6:25
  7. "C.T.A." - 5:12

1998 CD release

  1. "Picture of Heath"
  2. "For Miles and Miles "
  3. "C.T.A. "
  4. "For Minors Only"
  5. "Minor Yours "
  6. "Resonant Emotions"
  7. "Tynan Tyme"

Personnel

  • Chet Baker — trumpet
  • Art Pepper — alto saxophone
  • Phil Urso — tenor saxophone
  • Carl Perkins — piano
  • Curtis Counce — bass
  • Larance Marable — drums

    • Songs

    1Picture Of Heath6:44
    2For Miles And Miles6:24
    3CTA5:09

    References

    Playboys (Chet Baker & Art Pepper album) Wikipedia
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