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Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace is an album that was recorded on December 23, 29 & 30, 1958 at the Reeves Sound Studio in New York City. However, it was released in 1959 on the Riverside record label. Orrin Keepnews produced the 36 minute 19 seconds sessions.

The Riverside design team of Paul Bacon, Harris Lewine and Ken Braren joined forces and created a richly colorful strip of type that worked so perfectly with the lush cover portrait of the vocalist. The photograph was taken by Melvin Sokolsky.

Pace was discovered by Chet Baker for this rare and only recording of the singer, who is backed by Baker’s quintet.

Track List: 1. All Or Nothing At All 2. Crazy She Calls Me 3. The Way You Look Tonight 4. This Is Always 5. When The Sun Comes Out 6. What Is There To Say 7. Ev’rything I’ve Got 8. We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together 9. It Might As Well Be Spring 10. Yesterdays
  • Recorded on December 23rd (tracks 1, 2 & 9), December 29th (tracks 3 & 5-7) and December 30th (tracks 4, 6 & 8)
Personnel:
  • Johnny Pace – vocals
  • Chet Baker – trumpet
  • Herbie Mann – flute
  • Joe Berle – piano
  • Vinnie Burke – bass
  • Philly Joe Jones – drums

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George Otsuka gathered his Trio and went into the Columbia Records studio in Japan to lay down the tracks for his Page 1 on October 14, 1967 for the Tact Jazz Series. The session was recorded by Shuji Otsuke.

Songs: A1 Page 1 A2 Bye Bye Blackbird A3 Theme B1 Blues For Alice B2 It Might As Well Be Spring B3 Potato Chips B4 Theme Personnel: Bass – Masaoki Terakawa Drums – George Otsuka Piano – Hideo Ichikawa

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East Coast Jazz No. 4 is a 1955 album by flautist Herbie Mann recorded and released on the Bethlehem record label.. The photograph and cover design was created by Burt Goldblatt. This relatively short recording was only 25 minutes and 12 seconds long but was considered long playing for the time period.

Tracks:
1. Chicken Little
2. Cuban Love Song (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh Herbert Stothart)he 3. 3. Things We Did Last Summer (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne)
4. Deep Night (Charles E. Henderson, Rudy Vallée)
5. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
6. After Work
7. Moon Dreams (Chummy MacGregor, Johnny Mercer)

Personnel:
Herbie Mann – flute
Joe Puma (tracks 2, 4, 7), Benny Weeks (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6) – guitar
Keith Hodgson (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6), Whitey Mitchell (tracks 2, 4, 7) – bass
Lee Rockey (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6), Herb Wasserman (tracks 2, 4, 7) – drums

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Vibraphonist Johnny Lytle went into a New York City studio in 1968 and recorded The Sound Of Velvet Soul that was released on the Solid State record label. The ten (10) song recording session has a total length of 34:23 and was produced by Sonny Lester and arranged and conducted by Manny Albam.

Track Listing: A1 The Thing To Do A2 We’re Bluesin’ A3 L.A. Soul A4 Street Scene A5 Live For Life B1 Under The Rising Sun B2 On A Clear Day B3 Somewhere B4 Up Up And Away B5 Suddenly You The Players: VibraphonE: Johnny Lytle Baritone SaxophonE: Sol Schlinger Bass: Richard Davis (2) Drums: Mel Lewis Percussion: Johnny Pacheco Saxophone: Frank Wess, Jerome Richardson, Joe Farrell and Seldon Powell

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Kelly Great is an album recorded on August 12, 1959 by pianist Wynton Kelly, and released that same year on the Vee-Jay record label. The photograph was taken by Chuck Stewart. Sid McCoy produced the 35:24 long session and Cozy Noda was responsible for the digital remastering.

Kelly, Morgan and Shorter all contributed compositions for this for song session that included the following lineup of tunes – Wrinkles (Wynton Kelly), Mama G (Wayne Shorter), June Night (Abel Baer, Cliff Friend), What Know (Lee Morgan) and Sidney (Shorter).

With Kelly on piano leading the quintet he enlisted the talents of Lee Morgan on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Joe Jones on the drums.

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