Pacific Jazz · in the Kissa Kissa racks

Chet Baker & Crew

Recorded	Jul 24-31, 1956
Label	Pacific Jazz
Released	1956
Personnel	5 credited players
Discogs	master 284240

The record

A tight quintet date from the summer of '56, with Phil Urso's tenor giving Baker's cool trumpet a sturdier foil than usual and a young Bobby Timmons already hinting at the soul-jazz turn ahead.

Session personnel

Jimmy Bond — bass
Peter Littman — drums
Bobby Timmons — piano
Phil Urso — tenor saxophone
Chet Baker — trumpet

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 30 pressings on file.

1956	Pacific Jazz · PJ-1224 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
—	Pacific Jazz · PFJ-5007 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Deep Groove Black Label With Silver Print · deep groove
1957	World Pacific Records · PJ-1224 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
1957	Music · LPM 2021 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1958	Vogue Records · LAE 12076 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1958	World Pacific Records · STEREO-1004 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1958	World Pacific Records · WP-1224 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, strobophonic
1959	Hi-Fi Jazz · JAZZ-103 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1976	Liberty · LLR-88030 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1976	Liberty · LLR-88030 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Reissue, Stereo
1981	Pacific Jazz · K23P-6714 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1987	Pacific Jazz · 1224 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1990	Pacific Jazz · TOCJ-5345 — CD, Album, Reissue
1991	Pacific Jazz — MONO