Chet Baker - Boppin' with the Chet Baker Quintet (1965)

Credits (Recorded NYC, August 23, 25 & 29, 1965):

• Chet Baker (flh)
• George Coleman (ts)
• Kirk Lightsey (p)
• Herman Wright (b)
• Roy Brooks (d)

Track List:

1. Go-Go
2. Lament For The Living
3. Pot Luck
4. Bud's Blues
5. Romas
6. On A Misty Night

Download Links: Enjoy the Music, or here.

Other Recordings:

George Coleman

• Danger High Voltage
• Amsterdam After Dark
• Convergence
• Blues Inside Out
• My horns of plenty
• Dynamic Duo
• Convergence

Kirk Lightsey

• Goodbye Mr. Evans
• Kirk N Marcus
• Salute to Pops - Vol. 1
• Lightsey To Gladden
• From Kirk to Nat
• Lightsey To Gladden
• Everything has changed
• Temptation
• Nights of Bradley's
• Shorter by Two
• Lightsey Live
• Temptation
• Reeds & Keys
• Lightsey 1

Roy Brooks

• Duet In Detroit
• Ethnic Expression
• The Free Slave
• Beat
• Live at Town Hall

The Complete Pacific Jazz Live Recordings of the Chet Baker Quartet with Russ Freeman

  This is some of the best playing by Chet Baker. Just sit back and enjoy this one. Originally released as a 4-LP set it was re-issued as a 3-disc CD set on Mosaic Records (MD3-113). Now it's out of print yet again.

Credits:

• Chet Baker(tp)
• RussFreeman(p)
• Carson Smith(b)
• Bob Neal(d)

Track List:

1. Announcements
2. Line For Lyons
3. Lover Man
4. My Funny Valentine
5. Maid In Mexico
6. Stella By Starlight
7. My Old Flame
8. Headline
9. Russ Job
10. No Ties
11. Out of Nowhere
12. Deep Purple
13. My Little Suede Shoes
14. Lady Bird
15. Line for Lyons
16. Lullaby of the Leaves
17. My Old Flame
18. Russ Job
19. The Wind
20. Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart
21. Everything Happens To Me
22. A Dandy Line
23. Frenesi
24. Moonlight In Vermont
25. Carson City Stage (B)
26. Billie's Bounce
27. Stella By Starlight
28. Line For Lyons
29. Carson City Stage (C)
30. All The Things You Are

Download Links: Part 1, Part 2, or here.

Dave Catney - Jade Visions (1991)

Dave Catney's second recording, considered by many to be his best. Had he not died of AIDS in 1994 he would certainly have produced many more fine recordings. I posted his first recording a while back, First Flight (1990).

 

Credits:

• Dave Catney (Piano)
• Peter Erskine (Drums)
• Marcus "Benjy" Johnson (Bass)
• Andy Bradley (Engineer)
• Bernie Grundman (Mastering)
• Randall Hage Jamail (Producer)

 Track List:

1. Up With the Lark
2. Duke
3. Come Rain or Come Shine
4. Gentle Wind and Falling Tear
5. Jade Visions
6. Waste Not, Want
7. This Is New
8. Fool Moon
9. Dr. Jackle
10. Lost in the Stars

 Download Link: Enjoy the Music!

 

 Related Recordings:

• Standards
• Badlands
• First Flight
• Jade Visions
• Window of Light
• Reality Road
• Live at Rocco
• so real
• Cold Sun
• The Peter Erskine Trio Live At Jazz Baltica dvd
• Behind Closed Doors, Vol. 1
• Comin' Back Around
• Lessons in Love