Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe

Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker featuring show tunes by Lerner and Loewe which was recorded in 1959 and released on the Riverside label.[1]

Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe
Studio album by
Chet Baker
Released1959
RecordedJuly 21 & 22, 1959
Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
GenreJazz
Length43:02
LabelRiverside
RLP 12-307
ProducerOrrin Keepnews
Chet Baker chronology
Chet
(1959)		 Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe
(1959)		 Chet Baker in Milan
(1959)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]
Tom HullB+ ()[4]

Allmusic awarded the album with 3 stars stating "these readings are comparatively understated. That said, the timelessness of the melodies, coupled with the assembled backing aggregate, make Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959) a memorable concept album".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe

  1. "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" - 4:16
  2. "I Could Have Danced All Night" - 3:43
  3. "The Heather on the Hill" - 5:04
  4. "On the Street Where You Live" - 8:37
  5. "Almost Like Being in Love" - 4:53
  6. "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" - 4:35
  7. "I Talk to the Trees" - 5:51
  8. "Show Me" - 6:30
  • Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City on July 21 (tracks 2 & 6-8) and July 22 (tracks 1 & 3-5), 1959.

Personnel

References
  1. Chet Baker discography accessed August 14, 2013
  2. Planer, L. Allmusic listing accessed August 14, 2013
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 18. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. Hull, Tom (December 2013). "Recycled Goods (#115)". A Consumer Guide to the Trailing Edge. Tom Hull. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
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