West Coast Live (album) explained
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 until 1997, on the Pacific Jazz label.[1]
Reception
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
- "My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:59
- "Strike Up the Band" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:06
- "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 6:18
- "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) - 4:49
- "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Kern) - 4:23
- "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith) - 4:09
- "Come Out Wherever You Are" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 5:28
- "Move" (Denzil Best) - 4:34
- "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) - 3:41
- "Half Nelson" (Miles Davis) - 5:42
- "Little Willie Leaps" (Davis) - 3:55
- "Soft Shoe" (Gerry Mulligan) - 6:06
- "Whispering" (Richard Coburn, Vincent Rose, Malvin Schonberger) - 9:40
Disc Two
- "Bernie's Tune" (Bernie Miller, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) - 3:39
- "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Kern) - 5:33
- "Winter Wonderland" [Take 2] (Bernard, Smith) - 4:18
- "Gone With the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) - 5:25
- "All the Things You Are" (Hammerstein, Kern) - 17:42
- "Darn That Dream" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange) - 12:06
- "Crazy Rhythm" (Irving Caesar, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Joseph Meyer) - 8:41
- Recorded at The Haig in Hollywood on June 12, 1953 (Disc One and Disc Two, tracks 1-4), and Tiffany Club in Los Angeles on August 17, 1954 (Disc Two, tracks 5-7)
Personnel
Notes and References
- http://www.jazzdisco.org/chet-baker/catalog/#pacific-jazz-cdp-7243-8-35634-2 Chet Baker discography
- Planer, L. Allmusic Review accessed August 8, 2013
