Baker's Holiday: Plays & Sings Billie Holiday

Baker's Holiday: Plays & Sings Billie Holiday

Artist 

Chet Baker

Album Title 

Baker's Holiday: Plays & Sings Billie Holiday

Date of Release 

May 1965 (recording)

AMG Rating 

Genre 

Jazz

Tones 

Elegant, Sophisticated, Stylish, Intimate, Restrained, Sensual, Autumnal, Refined/Mannered, Sweet

Styles 

Cool West Coast Jazz

Time 

This CD finds him effectively paying tribute to Billie Holiday with mellow trumpet solos and occasional vocals. Baker is backed by a full sax section and a four-piece rhythm section that includes pianist Hank Jones Jimmy Mundy contributed the colorful arrangements. His performance of ten songs associated with Lady Day (most of which he had not recorded previously) is often exquisite. - Scott Yanow

Trav'lin' Light (Mercer/Mundy/Young) - 3:10

Easy Living (Rainger/Robin) - 3:21

That Ole Devil Called Love (Fisher/Roberts) - 3:15

You're My Thrill (Clare/Gorney) - 2:58

Crazy She Calls Me (Russell/Sigman) - 3:21

When Your Lover Has Gone (Swan) - 2:52

Mean to Me (Ahlert/Turk) - 3:35

review

These Foolish Things (Link/Marvell/Strachey) - 3:29

There Is No Greater Love (Jones/Symes) - 2:32

Don't Explain (Herzog/Holiday) - 3:30

Chet Baker

Flugelhorn, Leader

Richard Davis

Bass

Hank Jones

Piano

Jimmy Mundy

Arranger

Seldon Powell

Reeds

Alan Ross

Reeds

Connie Kay

Drums

Everett Barksdale

Guitar

Leon Cohen

Reeds

Luchi DeJesus

Producer

Hank Freeman

Reeds

Ira Gitler

Liner Notes

Richard Seidel

Charles Stewart

Photography

Andrew Nicholas

Remastering

Giulio Turturro

Art Direction, Design

Seth Rothstein

Art Direction, Design

Wilford Holcombe

Reeds

Herb Snitzer

Photography

Kerig Pope

Artwork