Baker's Holiday
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{{Infobox album|
| name = Baker's Holiday
| type = Album
| artist = Chet Baker
| cover = Baker's Holiday.jpg|border=yes
| alt =
| released = 1965
| recorded = May 1965
| venue =
| studio = NYC
| genre = Jazz
| length = 32:03
| label = Limelight
LM-82019/LS-86019
| producer = Luchi DeJesus
| chronology = Chet Baker
| prev_title = Stella by Starlight
| prev_year = 1964
| next_title = Smokin' with the Chet Baker Quintet
| next_year = 1965
}}
Baker's Holiday is an album of songs associated with Billie Holiday by trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker which was recorded in 1965 and released on the Limelight label.[https://microgroove.jp/mercury/LM82019.shtml Mercury Records collection] accessed May 26, 2017[http://www.jazzdisco.org/chet-baker/catalog/#limelight-lm-82019 Chet Baker Catalog] accessed May 26, 2017[https://enciclopediadeljazz.wordpress.com/2016/10/14/chet-baker-discography/ Enciclopedia del Jazz: Chet Baker] accessed May 26, 2017
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2 = Brian Morton|author2-link = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|edition = 9th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0 | page = 69}}
|rev3 = DownBeat
|rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}DownBeat magazine, November 4, 1965, p. 26
}}
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states: "His performance of ten songs associated with Lady Day (most of which he had not recorded previously) is often exquisite".{{AllMusic|first=Scott|last=Yanow|class=album |id= mw0000205745 |title=Baker's Holiday – Review |accessdate=May 26, 2017}}
Track listing
- "Trav'lin' Light" (Trummy Young, Jimmy Mundy, Johnny Mercer) – 3:10
- "Easy Living" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 3:21
- "That Ole Devil Called Love" (Allan Roberts, Doris Fisher) – 3:15
- "You're My Thrill" (Jay Gorney, Sidney Clare) – 2:58
- "Crazy She Calls Me" (Carl Sigman, Bob Russell) – 3:21
- "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) – 2:52
- "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 3:35
- "These Foolish Things" (Jack Strachey, Holt Marvell, Harry Link) – 3:29
- "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) – 2:32
- "Don't Explain" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) – 3:30
Personnel
- Chet Baker – flugelhorn, vocals on 1,2,6, 8, and 9
- Leon Cohen, Henry Freeman, Wilford Holcombe, Seldon Powell, Alan Ross – reeds
- Hank Jones – piano
- Everett Barksdale – guitar
- Richard Davis – bass
- Connie Kay – drums
- Jimmy Mundy – arranger
References
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Category:Limelight Records albums