Chet Baker

"Chet Baker in New York" (Riverside RLP 12-281) features the trumpeter in the company of a strong New York unit including Johnny Griffin, Al Haig, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones. These tracks mark the only collaborative recordings by Baker and Griffin. A reading of “Soft Winds” that completes the sessions (originally released on the various artists album New Blue Horns, Riverside RLP12-294), and a full date that was recorded in New York the following year (on which Baker plays four songs by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe) have been added as a bonus.

PERSONNEL:

CHET BAKER, trumpet
JOHNNY GRIFFIN, tenor sax (on 1-3 only);
AL HAIG, piano
PAUL CHAMBERS, bass;
PHILLY JOE JONES, drums.

New York, September 1958.

(*) BONUS TRACKS (7-11):

[7]: From the same sessions, but not included on the original LP.
[8-11]: CHET BAKER (tp); HERBIE MANN (fl, ts);
ZOOT SIMS (as, ts); PEPPER ADAMS (bar); BOB CORWIN (p);
EARL MAY (b); CLIFFORD JARVIS (d).
New York, July 21, 1959.

TRACKS:

01 FAIR WEATHER
02 HOTEL 49
03 BLUE THOUGHTS
04 POLKA DOTS AND MOONBEAMS
05 SOLAR
06 WHEN LIGHTS ARE LOW
07 SOFT WINDS (*)
08 THE HEATHER ON THE HILL (*)
09 I’VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO HER FACE (*)
10 ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE (*)
11 ALMOST LIKE BEING IN LOVE (*)

TOTAL TIME: 74:33 Min.