Smokin' with the Chet Baker Quintet

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Smokin' with the Chet Baker Quintet
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Studio album by Chet Baker
Released 1965
Recorded August 23, 25 & 29, 1965
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length38:45
Label Prestige
PR 7449
Producer Richard Carpenter
Chet Baker chronology
Baker's Holiday
(1965)		Smokin' with the Chet Baker Quintet
(1965)		 Groovin' with the Chet Baker Quintet
(1965)

Smokin' with the Chet Baker Quintet is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker which was recorded in 1965 and released on the Prestige label. [1]

Chet Baker American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer

Chesney Henry Baker Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist.

Prestige Records American jazz record label

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under subsidiaries. In 1971, the company was sold to Fantasy, which was later absorbed by Concord.

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Scott Yanow of Allmusic states, "these sessions let one know he could break through his "cool" image by playing heated bop when he wanted to. It also finds him debuting on fluegelhorn and the softer tone of the horn fit his introverted sound well". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Grade "A" Gravy" (Richard Carpenter, Gladys Bruce) - 6:27
  2. "Serenity" (Carpenter, Bruce) - 5:21
  3. "Fine and Dandy" (Isham Jones, Kay Swift) - 7:23
  4. "Have You Met Miss Jones?" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 6:38
  5. "Rearin' Back" (Carpenter, Sonny Stitt) - 6:04
  6. "So Easy" (Tadd Dameron) - 6:52

Personnel

Flugelhorn Brass musical instrument

The flugelhorn is a brass instrument that is usually pitched in B♭ but occasionally found in C. It resembles a trumpet, and the tube has the same length but a wider, conical bore. A type of valved bugle, the flugelhorn was developed in Germany from a traditional English valveless bugle, with the first version sold by Heinrich Stölzel in Berlin in 1828. The valved bugle provided Adolphe Sax with the inspiration for his B♭ soprano (contralto) saxhorns, on which the modern-day flugelhorn is modeled.

George Coleman American musician

George Edward Coleman is an American jazz saxophonist known for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s. In 2015, he was named an NEA Jazz Master.

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

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References

  1. ↑ Chet Baker discography accessed March 19, 2013
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed March 19, 2013
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