Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman
Studio album by
Chet Baker
Released1953
RecordedJuly 29 & 30, 1953
Studio
GenreJazz
Length71:22
CD reissue
LabelPacific Jazz
PJLP 6
ProducerRichard Bock
Chet Baker chronology
West Coast Live
(1953)		 Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman
(1953)		 Pretty/Groovy
(1958)

Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman is an album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker originally recorded in 1953 and released as a 10-inch LP on the Pacific Jazz label.[1] Russ Freeman was the pianist in the quartet and the composer of several of the pieces. The album was reissued on CD in 1998 with 17 bonus tracks originally released on the 10-inch LP Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman and 12-inch LPs Pretty/Groovy and The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Allmusic rated the reissued album with 4 stars stating "The 25 selections here provide copious evidence of Baker's uncanny artistry as he develops a dark, yet lyrical, interpretive approach. Immediately evident is the thoughtful synergy between Baker and the comparatively understated Freeman, whose comps help link the respective solos".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Russ Freeman except as indicated

  1. "Isn't It Romantic?" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:27 Bonus track on CD reissue
  2. "The Lamp Is Low" (Peter DeRose, Bert Shefter) – 2:30 Bonus track on CD reissue
  3. "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:43 Bonus track on CD reissue
  4. "Maid in Mexico" – 2:53 Bonus track on CD reissue
  5. "Russ Job" – 2:52 Bonus track on CD reissue
  6. "Imagination" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:59 Bonus track on CD reissue
  7. "Long Ago (and Far Away)" [10" LP Take] (Jerome Kern, Ira Gershwin) – 2:11
  8. "Long Ago (and Far Away)" [12" LP Take] (Kern, Gershwin) – 2:25 Bonus track on CD reissue
  9. "Carson City Stage" (Carson Smith) – 2:35 Bonus track on CD reissue
  10. "Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:08 Bonus track on CD reissue
  11. "Batter Up" – 2:15 Bonus track on CD reissue
  12. "No Ties" [10" LP Take] – 2:57
  13. "No Ties" [12" LP Take] – 2:57 Bonus track on CD reissue
  14. "All the Things You Are" (Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:53
  15. "The Thrill Is Gone" (Ray Henderson song) [10" LP Take] (Lew Brown, Ray Henderson) – 2:44
  16. "The Thrill Is Gone" [12" LP Take] (Brown, Henderson) – 2:45 Bonus track on CD reissue
  17. "Band Aid" – 2:43
  18. "Bea's Flat" – 2:57
  19. "Moon Love" [10" LP Take] (Kern, George Grossmith, Jr., P. G. Wodehouse) – 3:15 Bonus track on CD reissue
  20. "Moon Love" [12" LP Take] (Kern, Grossmith, Wodehouse) – 3:16 Bonus track on CD reissue
  21. "Happy Little Sunbeam" – 2:40
  22. "Happy Little Sunbeam" [Alternate Take] – 2:24 Bonus track on CD reissue
  23. "I Fall In Love Too Easily" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) – 2:02 Bonus track on CD reissue
  24. "Winter Wonderland" [78 Take] (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) – 3:16 Bonus track on CD reissue
  25. "Winter Wonderland" [LP Take] (Bernard, Smith) – 2:26 Bonus track on CD reissue
  • Recorded in Los Angeles on July 24 (track 1), July 27 (tracks 2–4), July 29 & 30 (tracks 5–11) and at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on October 3 (tracks 12–22) and October 27 (tracks 23–25), 1953

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Chet Baker discography accessed August 7, 2013
  2. 1 2 Planer, L. Allmusic listing accessed August 7, 2013
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