Chet Baker

INCLUDES 4 BONUS TRACKS

This CD presents the complete original album Chet Baker in New York, featuring the West Coast 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. As a bonus, one of the two sessions from the album Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (the other session, with Bill Evans on piano, can be found on our companion volume Chet Baker and Bill Evans,The Complete Legendary Sessions (AJC 99005).

PERSONNEL:

CHET BAKER, trumpet
JOHNNY GRIFIN (tenor sax on 1-3 only),
AL HAIG, piano
PAUL CHAMBERS, bass
PHILY JOE JONES, drums

New York, September 1958.

[8-11] Bonus tracks:
CHET BAKER (tp)
HERBIE MANN (fl, ts)
ZOOT SIMS, (as, ts)
PEPPER ADAMS (bs)
BOB CORWIN (p)
EARL MAY (b)
CLIFORD JARVIS (d).
New York, July 21, 1959.

TRACKS:

01. Fair Weather
02. Hotel
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: 74:27