Candy (Chet Baker album)

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Candy
Studio album by Chet Baker
Released 1985
Recorded June 1985, Sweden
Genre hard bop
Length41:16
Label Sonet Records
Producer Rune Öfwerman

Candy is a 1985 album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, released by Swedish company Sonet Records. [1] It was recorded in a lounge at the Sonet studio at Lidingö.

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Contents

Track listing

Side A

  1. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 9:50
  2. "Nardis" (Miles Davis) – 5:16
  3. "Candy" (Mack David, Alex Kramer, Joan Whitney) - 5:04

Side B

  1. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) - 7:47
  2. "Sad Walk" (Bob Zieff) - 4:47
  3. "Tempus Fugit" (Bud Powell) - 4:20
  4. "Red's Blues" (Sidney D. Mitchell) - 4:12

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Discogs.com" Retrieved on 22/05/14.
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