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Playboys (Chet Baker and Art Pepper album)

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Playboys
Studio album by
Released1956
RecordedOctober 31, 1956
StudioRadio Recorders, Hollywood, California
GenreJazz
Length40:07
LabelPacific Jazz
PJ 1234
ProducerRichard Bock
Chet Baker chronology
Chet Baker Big Band
(1956)
Playboys
(1956)
Quartet: Russ Freeman/Chet Baker
(1956)
Art Pepper chronology
The Return of Art Pepper
(1956)
Playboys
(1956)
The Art Pepper Quartet
(1956)
Picture of Heath cover

Playboys is a 1956 jazz album featuring trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Art Pepper.[1] The album was the third collaboration between Pepper and Baker, following The Route and Chet Baker Big Band. All three albums were recorded in 1956.

Cover

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Playboys was reissued in 1961 under the name Picture of Heath after the fifth track (itself a reference to Jimmy Heath, composer of all but two of the tracks). The tracks themselves were presented in a slightly different order, starting with the new title track. Hugh Hefner reportedly objected to the original album cover (clearly inspired by Playboy magazine with its near-identical wordmark and pinup photo) and threatened to sue.[2] For Picture of Heath, the original cover was replaced with a photo of the artists in the recording studio. The 1990 Blue Note/Pacific Jazz CD reissue of Playboys used the 'pin-up' cover, but the same label's 1998 CD reissue returned to the Picture of Heath cover.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

Lindsay Planer of AllMusic stated: "These thoroughly enjoyable and often high-energy sides are perfect for bop connoisseurs as well as mainstream jazz listeners".[3]

Track listing

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All compositions by Jimmy Heath, except as indicated

  1. "For Minors Only" - 4:00
  2. "Minor-Yours " (Art Pepper) - 6:44
  3. "Resonant Emotions" - 5:41
  4. "Tynan Tyme" (Pepper) - 5:32
  5. "Picture of Heath" - 6:44
  6. "For Miles and Miles" - 6:25
  7. "C.T.A." - 5:12

1998 CD release

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  1. "Picture of Heath"
  2. "For Miles and Miles "
  3. "C.T.A. "
  4. "For Minors Only"
  5. "Minor Yours "
  6. "Resonant Emotions"
  7. "Tynan Tyme"

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Chet Baker discography accessed July 30, 2013
  2. ^ "Vinyl Records, SACDs, DVD Audio, Audiophile Equipment | Acoustic Sounds". Store.acousticsounds.com. Retrieved 2011-06-18.
  3. ^ a b Planer, L. Allmusic Review accessed July 30, 2013
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.