Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace

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Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace
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Studio album by
Released1959
RecordedDecember 23, 29 & 30, 1958
Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length36:19
Label Riverside
RLP 12-292
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Chet Baker chronology
Chet Baker in New York
(1958)
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(1959)
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(1958)

Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker featuring vocalist Johnny Pace which was recorded in 1958 and released on the Riverside label early the following year. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic awarded the album with 3 stars stating "Pace delivers a winning program of standards in a style that owes an obvious debt to Frank Sinatra, but distinguishes itself by means of fruitier tone and an occasionally pronounced vibrato... Recommended". [2]

Track listing

  1. "All or Nothing at All" (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence) – 3:21
  2. "Crazy She Calls Me" (Bob Russell, Carl Sigman) – 4:13
  3. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) – 3:15
  4. "This Is Always" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 3:38
  5. "When the Sun Comes Out" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 4:04
  6. "What Is There to Say?" (Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg) – 3:41
  7. "Ev'rything I've Got" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:44
  8. "We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together" (Henry Manners, Robert Sour) – 3:15
  9. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Rodgers) – 3:53
  10. " Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Kern) – 5:00

Personnel

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References

  1. Chet Baker discography accessed August 14, 2013
  2. 1 2 Anderson, R. Allmusic listing accessed August 13, 2013