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1957 studio album by Chet Baker

Chet Baker & Crew

Studio album by Chet Baker

Released

February 1957

Recorded

July 24–25 & 31, 1956
Forum Theater, Los Angeles

Genre

Jazz

Length

63:12
CD reissue with bonus tracks

Label

Pacific Jazz
PJ 1224

Producer

Richard Bock

Chet Baker chronology

The Route
(1956)

Chet Baker & Crew
(1957)

Chet Baker Big Band
(1956)

Chet Baker & Crew is an album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker which was recorded in Los Angeles in 1956 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Disc

An AllMusic review by Lindsay Planer states, "The numbers heard on Chet Baker & Crew were among a prolific flurry of recordings Baker was involved in during the last week of July 1956 — fresh from an extended European stay".

Track listing

"To Mickey's Memory" (Harvey Leonard) - 5:12
"Slightly Above Moderate" (Bob Zieff) - 6:59
"Halema" (Phil Urso) - 3:51
"Revelation" (Gerry Mulligan) - 3:58
"Something For Liza" (Al Cohn) - 4:05
"Lucius Lu" (Urso) - 5:34
"Worryin' the Life Out of Me" (Miff Mole, Bob Russell, Frank Signorelli) - 2:59
"Medium Rock" (Zieff) - 5:30
"To Mickey's Memory" (Leonard) - 5:25 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Jumpin' Off a Clef" (Al Haig) - 4:55 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Chippyin'" (Leonard) - 3:20 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Pawnee Junction" (Bill Loughborough) - 4:01 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Music to Dance By" (Cohn) - 4:35 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Line for Lyons" (Mulligan, Loughbrough) - 2:48 Bonus track on CD reissue

Recorded without an audience at the Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California on July 24, 1956 (tracks 9-11), July 25, 1956 (tracks 12-14) and July 31, 1956 (tracks 1-8) - 7 more tracks including individual features can be found on the Young Chet CD or the Complete at the Forum Theatre 2-CD set

Personnel

Chet Baker - trumpet, vocal on track 14
Phil Urso - tenor saxophone
Bobby Timmons - piano
Jimmy Bond - bass
Peter Littmann - drums
Bill Loughborough - chromatic timpani (tracks 1, 9 & 12)

References

Billboard Mar 9, 1957
Chet Baker discography accessed August 2, 2013
^ Planer, L. Allmusic Review accessed August 2, 2013
Hall, Tony (31 May 1958). "Reviews". Disc. No. 17. p. 17.

v t e Chet Baker
Discography
Pacific Jazz	Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman (1953) Grey December (1953) West Coast Live (1953-54 ) Jazz at Ann Arbor (1954) The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker (1954) Chet Baker Sings (1954) Chet Baker Sings and Plays (1955) Chet Baker in Europe (1955) Chet Baker & Crew (1956) Chet Baker Big Band (1956) Playboys (1956) Quartet: Russ Freeman/Chet Baker (1956) Theme Music from "The James Dean Story" (1956 ) Embraceable You (1957) Pretty/Groovy (1953-1957 ) A Taste of Tequila (1966) Hats Off (1966) Quietly There (1966) Double-Shot (1966) Into My Life (1966) In the Mood (1966)
Riverside/Jazzland	(Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You (1958) Chet Baker in New York (1958) Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace (1958) Chet (1959) Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959) Chet Baker in Milan (1959) Chet Baker with Fifty Italian Strings (1959)
Prestige	Smokin' with the Chet Baker Quintet (1965) Groovin' with the Chet Baker Quintet (1965) Comin' On with the Chet Baker Quintet (1965) Boppin' with the Chet Baker Quintet (1965) Cool Burnin' with the Chet Baker Quintet (1965)
Enja	Oh You Crazy Moon (1978 ) Peace (1982) Strollin' (1985)
Other labels	Witch Doctor (1953) Chet Baker & Strings (1954) Stan Meets Chet (1958) Chet Is Back! (1962) The Most Important Jazz Album of 1964/65 (1964) I/We Had a Ball (1964) Baker's Holiday (1965) Baby Breeze (1965) Double-Shot (1966) Albert's House (1969) Blood, Chet and Tears (1970) In Concert (with Lee Konitz, 1974 ) She Was Too Good to Me (1974) Once Upon a Summertime (1977 ) You Can't Go Home Again (1977) The Best Thing for You (1977 ) Live at Nick's (1978 ) Ballads for Two (with Wolfgang Lackerschmid) (1979) The Touch of Your Lips (1979) All Blues (with Rachel Gould) (1979) Chet Baker / Wolfgang Lackerschmid (with Wolfgang Lackerschmid) (1979 ) Daybreak (1979 ) Rendez-Vous (1979 ) No Problem (1979 ) This Is Always (1979 ) Someday My Prince Will Come (1979 ) Studio Trieste (1982) Out of Nowhere (1982 ) Crystal Bells (1983) Line for Lyons (with Stan Getz) (1983) Everything Happens to Me (with Kirk Lightsey) (1983 ) At Capolinea (1983 ) Mr. B (1983 ) The Improviser (1983 ) Diane (1985) Chet's Choice (1985) Candy (1985) Blues for a Reason (1985) Chet Baker Plays Vladimir Cosma (1985) Rique Pantoja & Chet Baker (1985 ) There'll Never Be Another You (with Philip Catherine) (1985 ) Chet Baker Sings Again (1985 ) As Time Goes By (1986) When Sunny Gets Blue (1986) Cool Cat (1986 ) Chet Baker in Tokyo (1987)
As sideman	Reunion with Chet Baker (with Gerry Mulligan, 1957) A Sign of the Times (with Joe Pass, 1965) Carnegie Hall Concert (with Gerry Mulligan, 1974 ) Silence (with Charlie Haden, 1987)
Compositions	"Freeway" "Chetty's Lullaby" "Motivo su raggio di luna" "So che ti perderò" "Il mio domani"
As actor	Hell's Horizon (1955) Howlers in the Dock (1960)
Films	Let's Get Lost (1988) Born to Be Blue (2015)
Scores	Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1959)
Category

v t e Bobby Timmons
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons (and John Jenkins, Clifford Jordan, 1957) This Here Is Bobby Timmons (1960) Soul Time (1960) Easy Does It (1961) In Person (1961) Sweet and Soulful Sounds (1962) Born to Be Blue! (1963) Chun-King (1964) From the Bottom (1964) Holiday Soul (1964) Little Barefoot Soul (1964) Workin' Out! (1964) Chicken & Dumplin's (1965) Soul Food (1966) The Soul Man! (1966) Got to Get It! (1967) Do You Know the Way? (1968)
With Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers	1958 – Paris Olympia (1958) Des Femmes Disparaissent (1958) Drums Around the Corner (1958) Moanin' (1958) At the Jazz Corner of the World (1959) Les Liaisons dangereuses (1959) A Night in Tunisia (1960) Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World (1960) Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1961) Pisces (1961) Roots & Herbs (1961) The Freedom Rider (1961) The Witch Doctor (1961)
With others	10 to 4 at the 5 Spot (Pepper Adams, 1958) The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (1959) Them Dirty Blues (Cannonball Adderley, 1960) Work Song (Nat Adderley, 1960) Chet Baker & Crew (1956) Chet Baker Big Band (1956) Blue Lights (Kenny Burrell, 1958) On View at the Five Spot Cafe (Kenny Burrell, 1959) More Party Time (Arnett Cobb, 1960) Movin' Right Along (Arnett Cobb, 1960) 'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia (Kenny Dorham, 1956) Matador (Kenny Dorham, 1962) Brass Shout (Art Farmer, 1959) The Opener (Curtis Fuller, 1957) Benny Golson and the Philadelphians (1958) The Big Soul-Band (Johnny Griffin, 1960) The Soul Society (Sam Jones, 1960) Nice and Easy (Johnny Lytle, 1962) Hank (Hank Mobley, 1957) The Cooker (Lee Morgan, 1957) Lee-Way (Lee Morgan, 1960) Comin' On! (Dizzy Reece, 1960) Personal Appearance (Sonny Stitt, 1957) The Young Lions (1960)

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