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West Coast Live (album)

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Released
  
1997

Artists
  
Chet Baker, Stan Getz

Label
  
Blue Note Records

Producer
  
Richard Bock

Release date
  
1997

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
June 12, 1953 and August 17, 1954 The Haig, Hollywood and Tiffany Club, Los Angeles

West Coast Live (1953)
  
Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman (1953)

West Coast Live (1953)
  
Interpretations by the Stan Getz Quintet (1953)

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West Coast Live is a live album by trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Stan Getz which was recorded in California in 1953 but not released on the Pacific Jazz label until 1997.

Contents

Reception

Lindsay Planer of Allmusic states, "For two men who purportedly would rather not be in the same room at the same time, Baker and Getz are able to create some legitimately brilliant improvisation".

Disc One

  1. "My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:59
  2. "Strike Up the Band" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:06
  3. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 6:18
  4. "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) - 4:49
  5. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Kern) - 4:23
  6. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith) - 4:09
  7. "Come Out Wherever You Are" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 5:28
  8. "Move" (Denzil Best) - 4:34
  9. "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) - 3:41
  10. "Half Nelson" (Miles Davis) - 5:42
  11. "Little Willie Leaps" (Davis) - 3:55
  12. "Soft Shoe" (Gerry Mulligan) - 6:06
  13. "Whispering" (Richard Coburn, Vincent Rose, Malvin Schonberger) - 9:40

Disc Two

  1. "Bernie's Tune" (Bernie Miller, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) - 3:39
  2. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Kern) - 5:33
  3. "Winter Wonderland" [Take 2] (Bernard, Smith) - 4:18
  4. "Gone With the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) - 5:25
  5. "All the Things You Are" (Hammerstein, Kern) - 17:42
  6. "Darn That Dream" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange) - 12:06
  7. "Crazy Rhythm" (Irving Caesar, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Joseph Meyer) - 8:41
  • Recorded at The Haig in Hollywood on June 12, 1953 (Disc One and Disc Two, tracks 1-4), and Tiffany Club in Los Angeles on August 17, 1954 (Disc Two, tracks 5-7)

    • Personnel

  • Chet Baker - trumpet
  • Stan Getz - tenor saxophone
  • Russ Freeman - piano (Disc Two, tracks 5-7)
  • Carson Smith - bass
  • Larry Bunker (Disc One and Disc Two, tracks 1-4), Shelly Manne (Disc Two, tracks 5-7) - drums

    • Songs

    My Funny Valentine (Live)3:01
    Strike Up The Band (Live)5:07
    The Way You Look Tonight (Live)6:20

    References

    West Coast Live (album) Wikipedia
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