Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace Explained

Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace
Type:	Album
Artist:	Chet Baker and Johnny Pace
Cover:	Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace.jpg
Released:	1959
Recorded:	December 23, 29 & 30, 1958 Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	36:19
Label:	Riverside RLP 12-292
Producer:	Orrin Keepnews
Chronology:	Chet Baker
Prev Title:	Chet Baker in New York
Prev Year:	1958
Next Title:	Chet
Next Year:	1958

Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker featuring vocalist Johnny Pace which was recorded in 1958 and released on the Riverside label early the following year.^[1]

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album with 3 stars stating "Pace delivers a winning program of standards in a style that owes an obvious debt to Frank Sinatra, but distinguishes itself by means of fruitier tone and an occasionally pronounced vibrato... Recommended".^[2]

Track listing

1. "All or Nothing at All" (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence) – 3:21
2. "Crazy She Calls Me" (Bob Russell, Carl Sigman) – 4:13
3. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) – 3:15
4. "This Is Always" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 3:38
5. "When the Sun Comes Out" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 4:04
6. "What Is There to Say?" (Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg) – 3:41
7. "Ev'rything I've Got" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:44
8. "We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together" (Henry Manners, Robert Sour) – 3:15
9. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Rodgers) – 3:53
10. " Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Kern) – 5:00

• Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City on December 23 (tracks 1, 2 & 9), December 29 (tracks 3 & 5–7) and December 30 (tracks 4, 6 & 8), 1958.

Personnel

• Johnny Pace – vocals
• Chet Baker – trumpet
• Herbie Mann – flute
• Joe Berle – piano
• Vinnie Burke – bass
• Philly Joe Jones – drums
• Ed Thigpen - drums

References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/chet-baker/catalog/#riverside-rlp-12-292 Chet Baker discography
2. Anderson, R. Allmusic listing accessed August 13, 2013