West Coast Live (album)

West Coast Live
Live album by Chet Baker & Stan Getz
Released 1997
Recorded June 12, 1953 and August 17, 1954
The Haig, Hollywood and Tiffany Club, Los Angeles
Genre Jazz
Label Pacific Jazz
CDP 7243
Producer Richard Bock
Chet Baker chronology
Timeless
(1952-56)
West Coast Live
(1953)
Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman
(1953)

West Coast Live is a live album by trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Stan Getz which was recorded in California in 1953 but not released on the Pacific Jazz label until 1997.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Lindsay Planer of Allmusic states, "For two men who purportedly would rather not be in the same room at the same time, Baker and Getz are able to create some legitimately brilliant improvisation".[2]

Track listing

Disc One

  1. "My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:59
  2. "Strike Up the Band" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:06
  3. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 6:18
  4. "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) - 4:49
  5. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Kern) - 4:23
  6. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith) - 4:09
  7. "Come Out Wherever You Are" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 5:28
  8. "Move" (Denzil Best) - 4:34
  9. "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) - 3:41
  10. "Half Nelson" (Miles Davis) - 5:42
  11. "Little Willie Leaps" (Davis) - 3:55
  12. "Soft Shoe" (Gerry Mulligan) - 6:06
  13. "Whispering" (Richard Coburn, Vincent Rose, Malvin Schonberger) - 9:40

Disc Two

  1. "Bernie's Tune" (Bernie Miller, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) - 3:39
  2. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Kern) - 5:33
  3. "Winter Wonderland" [Take 2] (Bernard, Smith) - 4:18
  4. "Gone With the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) - 5:25
  5. "All the Things You Are" (Hammerstein, Kern) - 17:42
  6. "Darn That Dream" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange) - 12:06
  7. "Crazy Rhythm" (Irving Caesar, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Joseph Meyer) - 8:41

Personnel

References

  1. Chet Baker discography accessed August 8, 2013
  2. 1 2 Planer, L. Allmusic Review accessed August 8, 2013
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