Chet Baker & Art Pepper - Playboys - Limited Edition on 180g Orange Vinyl.
Recorded over November 20th and November 21st, 1956, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, Playboys represents the final and most celebrated collaboration that year between West Coast jazz titans Chet Baker and Art Pepper. Organized by producer Richard Bock for Pacific Jazz Records, these two days of studio dates captured both musicians at a creative high point—Pepper having recently returned to the scene following a drug-related incarceration and Baker returning matured from a major European tour. Despite the co-leaders' distinctive egos, the session is celebrated for its highly collaborative hard-bop interplay and an instinctual rapport that seamlessly blended Baker's economical, lyrical trumpet lines with Pepper's sharper, biting alto saxophone.
Chet Baker - Trumpet
Art Pepper - Alto Sax
Phil Urso - Tenor Sax
Carl Perkins - Piano
Curtis Counce - Bass
Lawrence Marable - Drums.
Side A
"For Minors Only" (Jimmy Heath) – 4:00
"Minor-Yours" (Art Pepper) – 6:44
"Resonant Emotions" (Jimmy Heath) – 5:41
Side B
"Picture of Heath" (Jimmy Heath) – 6:44
"For Miles and Miles" (Jimmy Heath) – 6:25
"C.T.A." (Jimmy Heath) – 5:12
“Little Girl” (Henry Hyde) 4:17 (Bonus Track)
Waxtime in Color Cat. No. 950655 2025
Chet Baker & Art Pepper - Playboys - Limited Edition on 180g Orange Vinyl.
Recorded over November 20th and November 21st, 1956, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, Playboys represents the final and most celebrated collaboration that year between West Coast jazz titans Chet Baker and Art Pepper. Organized by producer Richard Bock for Pacific Jazz Records, these two days of studio dates captured both musicians at a creative high point—Pepper having recently returned to the scene following a drug-related incarceration and Baker returning matured from a major European tour. Despite the co-leaders' distinctive egos, the session is celebrated for its highly collaborative hard-bop interplay and an instinctual rapport that seamlessly blended Baker's economical, lyrical trumpet lines with Pepper's sharper, biting alto saxophone.
Chet Baker - Trumpet
Art Pepper - Alto Sax
Phil Urso - Tenor Sax
Carl Perkins - Piano
Curtis Counce - Bass
Lawrence Marable - Drums.
Side A
"For Minors Only" (Jimmy Heath) – 4:00
"Minor-Yours" (Art Pepper) – 6:44
"Resonant Emotions" (Jimmy Heath) – 5:41
Side B
"Picture of Heath" (Jimmy Heath) – 6:44
"For Miles and Miles" (Jimmy Heath) – 6:25
"C.T.A." (Jimmy Heath) – 5:12
“Little Girl” (Henry Hyde) 4:17 (Bonus Track)
Waxtime in Color Cat. No. 950655 2025
