Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings & Plays (Mono)
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Chet Baker -Trumpet, vocals [click here to see more vinyl featuring Chet Baker]
Russ Freeman – piano
Bob Neel – drums
Red Mitchell (A2, A4, B1, B4), Carson Smith (A1, A3, A5, B2-3, B5-6) – bass
Bud Shank – flute (A2, A4, B1, B4) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Bud Shank]
Ray Kramer, Ed Lustgarten, Kurt Reher, Eleanor Slatkin – cello (A2, A4, B1, B4)
Corky Hale – harp (A2, A4, B1, B4)
A2, A4, B1, B4 arranged by Frank Campo, Johnny Mandel, Marty Paich
Written by Jimmy McHugh (A1), Frank Loesser (A1), Harry Warren (A2), Mack Gordon (A2), Jerome Kern (A3), Ira Gershwin (A3), George & Ira Gershwin (A4), John Klenner (A5), Sam M. Lewis (A5), Harry Warren (B1), Mack Gordon (B1), Ferde Grofé (B2), Harold Adamson (B2), Gene de Paul (B3), Don Raye (B3), Frank Campo (B4), Victor Schertzinger (B5), Johnny Mercer (B5)
1 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Mono
Studio
Record Press : Record Technology Incorporated
Label : Blue Note Tone Poet Series
Original Label : Pacific Jazz
Recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, California on February 28, 1955 (A2, A4, B1, B4) and in Los Angeles, California on March 7, 1955 (A1, A3, A5, B2-3, B5-6)
Engineered and produced by Richard Bock
Reissue produced by Joe Harley
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
Photography and cover design by William Claxton
Liner Notes by Thomas Conrad
Originally released in 1955
Reissued in April 2023
Tracks:
Side A:
- Let's Get Lost
- This Is Always,
- Long Ago (And Far Away)
- Someone To Watch Over Me
- Just Friends
Side B:
- I Wish I Knew
- Daybreak
- You Don't Know What Love Is
- Grey December
- I Remember You
Reviews :
“With the growing popularity of Chet Baker's first vocal album, Chet Baker Sings, Pacific Jazz producer Richard Bock wanted to capitalize on both facets of his young star's abilities. Hence, the trumpeter turned vocalist entered the studio in 1955 with both his quartet featuring pianist Russ Freeman and an expanded sextet including bassist Red Mitchell, Bud Shank on flute, and various string players. The resulting album, Chet Baker Sings and Plays, helped set in stone the image of Baker as the jazz world's matinee idol and icon of '50s West Coast cool. His laid-back style -- a mix of '30s crooner and Miles Davis' nonet recordings -- appealed in its immediacy to a jazz public tiring of the hyper, athletic musicality of bebop. Similarly, his plaintive, warm trumpet sound was the more sensitive antidote to such brassy kings as Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown. Others artists had performed many of these standards before, but as with "My Funny Valentine" on Chet Baker Sings, tracks like "Let's Get Lost," "Long Ago and Far Away," and "Just Friends" became definitively associated with Baker for the rest of his career. Chet Baker Sings and Chet Baker Sings and Plays are not only the two most important albums of Baker's career, but are classics of jazz.” AllMusic Review by Matt Collar
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4 / 5