Chet Baker & Strings
1954 studio album by Chet Baker
Chet Baker & Strings Released April 14, 1954[ 1] Recorded December 30–31, 1953 and February 20, 1954Los Angeles, California Genre Jazz Length 36 :47 Label Columbia CL 549 Producer Richard Bock
Chet Baker & Strings Chet Baker recorded in late 1953 and early 1954 and released on the Columbia label.[ 2]
Reception
Lindsay Planer of Allmusic stated: "This release offers a unique glimpse of a young Chet Baker in a quintet setting, complemented by a nine-piece string section... The easygoing and otherwise winding strings support the cool bop like a kite in a March breeze — light, airy, and conspicuous only in altitude".[ 3]
Track listing
"You Don't Know What Love Is " (Don Raye , Gene de Paul ) - 3:30
"I'm Thru With Love" (Fud Livingston , Gus Kahn , Matty Malneck ) - 2:39
"Love Walked In " (George Gershwin , Ira Gershwin ) - 2:59
"You Better Go Now" (Irvin Graham, Bickley Reichner) - 3:06
"I Married An Angel" (Lorenz Hart , Richard Rodgers ) - 3:37
"Love" (Hugh Martin , Ralph Blane ) - 2:34
"I Love You " (Cole Porter ) - 2:48
"What a Diff'rence a Day Made " (María Grever , Stanley Adams ) - 2:40
"Why Shouldn't I?" (Cole Porter ) - 3:35
"A Little Duet for Zoot and Chet" (Jack Montrose ) - 2:37
"The Wind" (Russ Freeman ) - 4:02
"Trickleydidlier" (Shorty Rogers ) - 2:40
"You Don't Know What Love Is" [Alternate Take] (Raye, de Paul) - 3:30 Bonus track on CD reissue
"You Better Go Now" [Alternate Take] (Reichner, Graham) - 3:09 Bonus track on CD reissue
"A Little Duet for Zoot and Chet" [Alternate Take] (Montrose) - 2:39 Bonus track on CD reissue Recorded in Los Angeles, California on December 30, 1953 (tracks 3, 5, 10, 14 & 15), December 31, 1953 (tracks 1, 2, 9, 12 & 13) and February 20, 1954 (tracks 4, 6-8 & 11).
Personnel
Chet Baker - trumpet Bud Shank - alto saxophone , flute (tracks 4, 6-8 & 11)Zoot Sims - tenor saxophone (tracks 1-3, 5, 9, 10 & 12-15)Russ Freeman - piano Joe Mondragon - bass Shelly Manne - drums Sam Cytron, Jack Gasselin, George Kast, Eudice Shapiro, Paul Shure, Felix Slatkin - violin
Lou Kievman, Paul Robyn - viola
Victor Gottlieb cello
Jack Montrose (tracks 4, 10, 14 & 15), Johnny Mandel (tracks 1, 6, 7, 11 & 13), Marty Paich (tracks 3 & 5), Shorty Rogers (tracks 2, 8, 9 & 12) - arrangers
References
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted.
As WithStan WithPete Sideman Soundtracks Arranger
Christmas Album Chet Baker & Strings You're the Reason I'm Living Bobby Darin , 1962–63)Bobby Darin Sings The Shadow of Your Smile Ode to Billie Joe Bobbie Gentry , released 1967)Local Gentry The Delta Sweete Reza Terry Gibbs , 1966)Lena Like Latin Lena Horne , 1963)In Love Again! Peggy Lee , 1963)Pass Me By The West Coast Sound Shelly Manne , 1953–55)My Son the Jazz Drummer! Portrait of Carmen Carmen McRae , 1967)The Sound of Silence The Wichita Train Whistle Sings Michael Nesmith , 1968)Big Swing Face Buddy & Soul A Spoonful of Jazz Comin' Home Baby! Mel Tormé , 1962) ArrangerThe
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As
The Brothers Stan Getz , 1949–52)Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims Tonite's Music Today Bob Brookmeyer , 1956)Whooeeee Zoot! Locking Horns Joe Newman , 1957)Stretching Out Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note Phil Woods , 1959)Down Home Two Jims and Zoot Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall , 1964)Inter-Action Sonny Stitt , 1965)Waiting Game The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World Nirvana Bucky Pizzarelli , Buddy Rich , 1974)Basie & Zoot Count Basie , 1975)The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , 1975)Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers Joe Pass , Oscar Peterson , 1975)Soprano Sax Hawthorne Nights If I'm Lucky Jimmy Rowles , 1977)For Lady Day Warm Tenor Jimmy Rowles , 1979)The Sweetest Sounds Rune Gustafsson , 1979)Just Friends Harry Edison , 1980)Art 'n' Zoot Art Pepper , 1981) RecordingsAl Cohn
From A to...Z The Sax Section Tenor Conclave Hank Mobley , John Coltrane , 1957)The Four Brothers... Together Again! Herbie Steward , Serge Chaloff , 1957)Al and Zoot Blues and Haikus Jack Kerouac , 1959)SteveIreneo! Irene Kral , Steve Allen , 1959)Son of Drum Suite You 'n' Me Either Way Jazz Mission to Moscow Body and Soul Motoring Along WithQuincy WithGerry With
Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus Encounter! Pepper Adams , 1968)Trigger Happy! East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert /Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott , 1956)Chet Baker & Strings Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe The Bosses "Big Joe" Turner , 1973)Louis Bellson Quintet The Genius of Ray Charles Jazz Is Universal Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band , 1961)Chris Connor The Book Cooks Booker Ervin , 1960)Loose Blues Bill Evans , 1962)The Aztec Suite Art Farmer , 1959)South American Cookin' Curtis Fuller , 1961)Creole Cookin' Bobby Hackett , 1967)The Hawk in Hi Fi Coleman Hawkins , 1956)Portraits on Standards Stan Kenton , 1953)The Kenton Era The Manhattan Transfer Profiles Gary McFarland , 1966)Something to Swing About Carmen McRae , 1959)Ms. Jazz Metronome All-Stars 1956 The Complete Town Hall Concert Charles Mingus , 1962)Arranged by Montrose Jack Montrose , 1954)Encyclopedia of Jazz Oliver Nelson , 1966)The Sound of Feeling Jazzhattan Suite All the Sad Young Men Anita O'Day , 1962)Transition Lionel Hampton , 1974)Shorty Rogers Courts the Count Samba Para Dos Lalo Schifrin , Bob Brookmeyer, 1963)Moonlight in Vermont Johnny Smith , 1952)Phoebe Snow Broadway Soul Sonny Stitt , 1965)Vaughan and Violins Sarah Vaughan , 1958)The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More The Jazz Guitarist At Newport '63 Joe Williams , 1963)
