West Coast Live (album)
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West Coast Live | ||||
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Released | 1997 | |||
Recorded | June 12, 1953 and August 17, 1954 | |||
Venue | The Haig, Hollywood and Tiffany Club, Los Angeles | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Pacific Jazz CDP 7243 | |||
Producer | Richard Bock | |||
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Stan Getz chronology | ||||
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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 until 1997, on the Pacific Jazz label.[1]
Reception
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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".[2]
Track listing
[edit]Disc One
[edit]- "My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:59
- "Strike Up the Band" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:06
- "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 6:18
- "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) - 4:49
- "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Kern) - 4:23
- "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith) - 4:09
- "Come Out Wherever You Are" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 5:28
- "Move" (Denzil Best) - 4:34
- "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) - 3:41
- "Half Nelson" (Miles Davis) - 5:42
- "Little Willie Leaps" (Davis) - 3:55
- "Soft Shoe" (Gerry Mulligan) - 6:06
- "Whispering" (Richard Coburn, Vincent Rose, Malvin Schonberger) - 9:40
Disc Two
[edit]- "Bernie's Tune" (Bernie Miller, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) - 3:39
- "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Kern) - 5:33
- "Winter Wonderland" [Take 2] (Bernard, Smith) - 4:18
- "Gone With the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) - 5:25
- "All the Things You Are" (Hammerstein, Kern) - 17:42
- "Darn That Dream" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange) - 12:06
- "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
[edit]- 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
References
[edit]- ^ Chet Baker discography accessed August 8, 2013
- ^ a b Planer, L. Allmusic Review accessed August 8, 2013
- ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
- ^ Carr, Roy (November 1997). "Chet Baker: The Prestige Sessions: Volume 1 Lonely Star/Volume 2 Stairway to the Stars/Volume 3 On a Misty Night / Chet Baker & Stan Getz: West Coast Live". Uncut. No. 6. p. 84.