Playboys (Chet Baker & Art Pepper album)
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| Studio album by Chet Baker and Art Pepper | |||||
| Released | 1956 | ||||
| Recorded | October 31, 1956 Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California |
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| Genre | Jazz | ||||
| Length | 40:07 | ||||
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Pacific Jazz PJ 1234 |
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| Producer | Richard Bock | ||||
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| Allmusic |   |
Playboys is a 1956 jazz album featuring trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Art Pepper. The album was the third collaboration between Pepper and Baker, following the successes of The Route and Chet Baker Big Band. All three albums were recorded in 1956.
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 album cover (obviously inspired by Playboy magazine with its near-identical wordmark and pinup photo) and threatened to sue. Perhaps for that reason, when Blue Note Records released Playboys on CD (under the name Picture of Heath), the original pinup cover was replaced with a photo of the artists in the recording studio.
Lindsay Planer of Allmusic states, "These thoroughly enjoyable and often high-energy sides are perfect for bop connoisseurs as well as mainstream jazz listeners".
All compositions by Jimmy Heath except as indicated
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