Mercury Records Collection: Limelight LM-82019: Baker's Holiday

LM-82019: Baker's Holiday / Chet Baker

Label Type :	green Limelight promotional
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	LM 82019A M1 RR
	SIDE-B	LM82019B M1 I RR

Comments

Equivalent release: Limelight LS-86019 (stereo).

original gatefold cover with original booklet.

promotional copy (for broadcast).

Inside The Groove

Lazy, swingy and moody big ensemble led by Chet Baker, remembering a great jazz singer Billie Holiday.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Chet Baker of his 1960s - often neglected and low-rated, maybe because his 1950s recordings are mostly greatest. However, this big ensemble album may be one of the greatest in his seldom-recorded 1960s.

Lazy feeling of Chet Baker's own voice, his moody trumpet, and good-old arrangements by Jimmy Munday sound chemical.

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

8 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	1-36277	Travelin' Light (Mundy - Young - Mercer)	3:07
A-2	1-36271	Easy Living (L. Robin - R. Rainger)	3:34
A-3	1-36275	That Ole Devil Called Love (Fisher - Roberts)	3:12
A-4	1-36276	You're My Thrill (S. Clare - J. Gorney)	2:56
A-5	1-36279	Crazy She Calls Me (B. Russell - C. Sigman)	3:12
SIDE-B
B-1	1-36273	When Your Lover Has Gone (E.A. Swan)	3:50
B-2	1-36280	Mean To Me (R. Turk - F. Ahlert)	3:30
B-3	1-36272	These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) (Strachey - Link - Marvell)	3:25
B-4	1-36274	There Is No Greater Love (M. Symes - I. Jones)	2:30
B-5	1-36278	Don't Explain (B. Holiday - A. Herzog, Jr.)	3:30

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

A-1, A-2, B-1, B-4:
Chet Baker (flh, vo), Alan Ross (reeds), Seldon Powell (reeds), Leon Cohen (reeds), Wilford Halcombe (reeds),
Hank Jones (p), Everett Barksdale (g), Richard Davis (b), Connie Kay (ds).
Recorded in New York City, May 1965.

A-3, A-4, A-5, B-2, B-3, B-5:
same personnel/date/location as above, except Chet Baker (flh).