West Coast Live (album)

1997 live album by Chet Baker & Stan Getz

West Coast Live is a live album by trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Stan Getz which was recorded in California in 1953 but not released until 1997, on the Pacific Jazz label.^[1]

Reception

Lindsay Planer of Allmusic states: "For two men who purportedly would rather not be in the same room at the same time, Baker and Getz are able to create some legitimately brilliant improvisation".^[2]

Track listing

Disc One

1. "My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:59
2. "Strike Up the Band" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:06
3. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 6:18
4. "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) - 4:49
5. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Kern) - 4:23
6. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith) - 4:09
7. "Come Out Wherever You Are" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 5:28
8. "Move" (Denzil Best) - 4:34
9. "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) - 3:41
10. "Half Nelson" (Miles Davis) - 5:42
11. "Little Willie Leaps" (Davis) - 3:55
12. "Soft Shoe" (Gerry Mulligan) - 6:06
13. "Whispering" (Richard Coburn, Vincent Rose, Malvin Schonberger) - 9:40

Disc Two

1. "Bernie's Tune" (Bernie Miller, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) - 3:39
2. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Kern) - 5:33
3. "Winter Wonderland" [Take 2] (Bernard, Smith) - 4:18
4. "Gone With the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) - 5:25
5. "All the Things You Are" (Hammerstein, Kern) - 17:42
6. "Darn That Dream" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange) - 12:06
7. "Crazy Rhythm" (Irving Caesar, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Joseph Meyer) - 8:41

• Recorded at The Haig in Hollywood on June 12, 1953 (Disc One and Disc Two, tracks 1-4), and Tiffany Club in Los Angeles on August 17, 1954 (Disc Two, tracks 5-7)

Personnel

• Chet Baker - trumpet
• Stan Getz - tenor saxophone
• Russ Freeman - piano (Disc Two, tracks 5-7)
• Carson Smith - bass
• Larry Bunker (Disc One and Disc Two, tracks 1-4), Shelly Manne (Disc Two, tracks 5-7) - drums

References

1. Chet Baker discography accessed August 8, 2013
2. Planer, L. Allmusic Review accessed August 8, 2013
3. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.