Chet Baker & Crew Featuring Phil Urso & Bobby Timmons - At the Forum Theatre: Complete Recordings (2007)

Tracklist

CD1
01. Tabu - Chet Baker, Lecuona, Margarita
02. Halema - Chet Baker, Urso, Phil
03. To Mickey's Memory - Chet Baker, Leonard, Harvey
04. Down - Chet Baker, Davis, Miles
05. I Can't Get Started - Chet Baker, Duke, V.
06. Revelation - Chet Baker, Mulligan, Gerry
07. Lucius Lou - Chet Baker, Urso, Phil
08. Worryin' the Life out of Me - Chet Baker, Mole
09. Something for Liza - Chet Baker, Cohn, Al
10. Medium Rock - Chet Baker, Zieff, Bob
11. Pawnee Junction - Chet Baker, Loughbrough, Bill

CD2
01. Extra Mild - Chet Baker, Urso, Phil
02. Chippyin' - Chet Baker, Leonard, Harvey
03. It's Only a Paper Moon - Chet Baker, Arlen, H.
04. Music to Dance By - Chet Baker, Cohn, Al
05. Autumn in New York - Chet Baker, Duke, Vernon
06. A Night on Bop Mountain - Chet Baker, Winding, Kai
07. Slightly Above Moderate - Chet Baker, Zieff, Bob
08. Jumpin' off a Clef - Chet Baker, Haig, Al
09. Line for Lyons - Chet Baker, Mulligan, Gerry
10. Mickey's Memory [Alternate Take] - Chet Baker, Leonard, Harvey


This is not just another Chet Baker album. These two CDs contain, for the first time in one set, all the recordings he made with his quintetthe crewunder Dick Bocks direction at the Los Angeles Forum Theatre in July 1956. On these sessions Chet plays throughout with even greater warmth, virility and maturity of conception than on previous recordings, but with the lyricism that was his forte intact. Ursos earthy, strongly swinging tenor, out of the brothers school, also raises the ante. In the rhythm section Bobby Timmons, who adds a powerful solo voice on piano, is buoyantly funky, while Jimmy Bond and Peter Littman complete a grooving, effectively driving unit behind the soloists.

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