Grey December (album)

Grey December
Grey December
Compilation album by Chet Baker
Released	1992
Recorded	December 14 & 22, 1953 and February 28, 1955
Studio	Capitol Melrose Ave (Hollywood)
Genre	Jazz
Length	53:05
Label	Pacific Jazz; CDP 97160
Producer	Richard Bock
Chet Baker chronology

Released1992

RecordedDecember 14 & 22, 1953 and February 28, 1955

StudioCapitol Melrose Ave (Hollywood)

GenreJazz

Grey December is an album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker compiling sessions recorded in 1953 and 1955 which was released on the Pacific Jazz label in 1992.^[1] The album compiles tracks previously released on the 1954 10-inch LP Chet Baker Ensemble, the 7-inch EP Chet Baker – Sings And Plays With Bud Shank, Russ Freeman And Strings, along with previously unissued alternate takes.

The CD cover uses the same picture by William Claxton as the original cover of LP Chet Baker Ensemble.

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Discography
Pacific Jazz	Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman (1953) Grey December (1953) West Coast Live (1953-54 [1997]) Jazz at Ann Arbor (1954) The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker (1954) Chet Baker Sings (1954) Chet Baker Sings and Plays (1955) Chet Baker in Europe (1955) Chet Baker & Crew (1956) Chet Baker Big Band (1956) Playboys (1956) Quartet: Russ Freeman/Chet Baker (1956) Theme Music from "The James Dean Story" (1956 [1957]) Embraceable You (1957) Pretty/Groovy (1953-1957 [1958]) A Taste of Tequila (1966) Hats Off (1966) Quietly There (1966) Double-Shot (1966) Into My Life (1966) In the Mood (1966)
Riverside/Jazzland	(Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You (1958) Chet Baker in New York (1958) Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace (1958) Chet (1959) Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959) Chet Baker in Milan (1959) Chet Baker with Fifty Italian Strings (1959)
Prestige	Smokin' with the Chet Baker Quintet (1965) Groovin' with the Chet Baker Quintet (1965) Comin' On with the Chet Baker Quintet (1965) Boppin' with the Chet Baker Quintet (1965) Cool Burnin' with the Chet Baker Quintet (1965)
Enja	Oh You Crazy Moon (1978 [2003]) Peace (1982) Strollin' (1985)
Other labels	Witch Doctor (1953) Chet Baker & Strings (1954) Stan Meets Chet (1958) Chet Is Back! (1962) The Most Important Jazz Album of 1964/65 (1964) I/We Had a Ball (1964) Baker's Holiday (1965) Baby Breeze (1965) Double-Shot (1966) Albert's House (1969) Blood, Chet and Tears (1970) In Concert (with Lee Konitz, 1974 [1982]) She Was Too Good to Me (1974) Once Upon a Summertime (1977 [1980]) You Can't Go Home Again (1977) The Best Thing for You (1977 [1989]) Live at Nick's (1978 [1987]) Ballads for Two (with Wolfgang Lackerschmid) (1979) The Touch of Your Lips (1979) All Blues (with Rachel Gould) (1979) Chet Baker / Wolfgang Lackerschmid (with Wolfgang Lackerschmid) (1979 [1980]) Daybreak (1979 [1980]) Rendez-Vous (1979 [1980]) No Problem (1979 [1980]) This Is Always (1979 [1982]) Someday My Prince Will Come (1979 [1983]) Studio Trieste (1982) Out of Nowhere (1982 [1991]) Crystal Bells (1983) Line for Lyons (with Stan Getz) (1983) Everything Happens to Me (with Kirk Lightsey) (1983 [1984]) At Capolinea (1983 [1984]) Mr. B (1983 [1984]) The Improviser (1983 [1984]) Diane (1985) Chet's Choice (1985) Candy (1985) Blues for a Reason (1985) Chet Baker Plays Vladimir Cosma (1985) Rique Pantoja & Chet Baker (1985 [1987]) There'll Never Be Another You (with Philip Catherine) (1985 [1997]) Chet Baker Sings Again (1985 [1986]) As Time Goes By (1986) When Sunny Gets Blue (1986) Cool Cat (1986 [1989]) Chet Baker in Tokyo (1987)
As sideman	Reunion with Chet Baker (with Gerry Mulligan, 1957) A Sign of the Times (with Joe Pass, 1965) Carnegie Hall Concert (with Gerry Mulligan, 1974 [1975]) Silence (with Charlie Haden, 1987)
Compositions	"Freeway" "Chetty's Lullaby" "Motivo su raggio di luna" "So che ti perderò" "Il mio domani"
As actor	Hell's Horizon (1955) Howlers in the Dock (1960)
Films	Let's Get Lost (1988) Born to Be Blue (2015)
Scores	Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1959)
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