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
Released	1959
Recorded	July 21 & 22, 1959 Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	43:02
Label	Riverside RLP 12-307
Producer	Orrin 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
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]
Tom Hull	B+ ()[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

• Chet Baker - trumpet
• Herbie Mann - flute, tenor saxophone
• Zoot Sims - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
• Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone
• Bob Corwin (tracks 1 & 3-5), Bill Evans (tracks 2 & 6-8) - piano
• Earl May - bass
• Clifford Jarvis - drums

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.