Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe

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Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe
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Studio album by
Chet Baker
Released1959
RecordedJuly 21 & 22, 1959
Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length43:02
Label Riverside
RLP 12-307
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Chet Baker chronology
Chet
(1959)		Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe
(1959)		 Chet Baker in Milan
(1959)

Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker featuring show tunes by Lerner and Loewe which was recorded in 1959 and released on the Riverside label. [1]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Pitchfork 5.5/10 [3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Tom Hull B+ ( Five Pointed Star Solid.svg ) [6]

Allmusic awarded the album with 3 stars stating "these readings are comparatively understated. That said, the timelessness of the melodies, coupled with the assembled backing aggregate, make Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959) a memorable concept album". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe

  1. "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" - 4:16
  2. "I Could Have Danced All Night" - 3:43
  3. "The Heather on the Hill" - 5:04
  4. "On the Street Where You Live" - 8:37
  5. "Almost Like Being in Love" - 4:53
  6. "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" - 4:35
  7. "I Talk to the Trees" - 5:51
  8. "Show Me" - 6:30

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Chet Baker discography accessed August 14, 2013
  2. 1 2 Planer, L. Allmusic listing accessed August 14, 2013
  3. ↑ Richardson, Mark (27 November 2019). "Chet Baker: The Legendary Riverside Albums Album Review". Pitchfork .
  4. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 18. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  5. ↑ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 66. ISBN   978-0-14-103401-0.
  6. ↑ Hull, Tom (December 2013). "Recycled Goods (#115)". A Consumer Guide to the Trailing Edge. Tom Hull. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
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