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1985 studio album by Chet Baker Quintet featuring Warne Marsh
Blues for a Reason is an album by trumpeter
Chet Baker which was recorded in 1984 and released by
Criss Cross Jazz .
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Reception
The Penguin Guide to Jazz noted "Blues for a Reason stands out from much of the work of the period in including relatively unfamiliar charts, including three by Chet himself. ... This is an important and quietly salutary album that confounds the more casual dismissals of the trumpeter's latter-day work".
[3] The
Allmusic review states "This combination works quite well. For what might have been the only time in their careers, trumpeter Chet Baker and tenor-saxophonist Warne Marsh were teamed together in a quintet ... Recommended".
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Track listing
All compositions by Chet Baker except where noted.
"Well Spoken" (Warne Marsh) – 9:05
"
If You Could See Me Now " (
Tadd Dameron ) – 5:35
"We Know It's Love" – 6:28
"Looking Good Tonight" – 8:28
"
Imagination " (
Jimmy Van Heusen ,
Johnny Burke ) – 7:30
"Blues for a Reason" – 8:38
"Looking Good Tonight" [Take 2] – 5:19 Bonus track on CD release
"We Know It's Love" [Take 2] – 6:30 Bonus track on CD release
Personnel
References
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader
Live in Hollywood (1952)
Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh (1955)
Jazz of Two Cities (1956)
Art Pepper with Warne Marsh (1957)
Music for Prancing (1957)
The Right Combination (and
Joe Albany , 1957)
Warne Marsh (1957–58)
The Art of Improvising (1959)/
Live at the Half Note (
Lee Konitz , 1959)
Ne Plus Ultra (1969)
Report of the 1st Annual Symposium on Relaxed Improvisation (
Clare Fischer ,
Gary Foster , 1972)
The Unissued 1975 Copenhagen Studio Recordings (December 28, 1975)
The Unissued Copenhagen Studio Recordings (December 29, 1975)
Warne Marsh Quintet: Jazz Exchange Vol. 1 (and Lee Konitz, 1975)
Live at the Montmartre Club: Jazz Exchange Vol. 2 (and Lee Konitz, 1975)
Warne Marsh Lee Konitz: Jazz Exchange Vol. 3 (and Lee Konitz, 1975)
All Music (1976)
Lee Konitz Meets Warne Marsh Again (1976)
Tenor Gladness (and
Lew Tabackin , 1976)
Warne Out (1977)
Apogee (and
Pete Christlieb , 1978)
Conversations with Warne Volume 1 (and Pete Christlieb, 1978)
Conversations with Warne Volume 2 (and Pete Christlieb, 1978)
How Deep, How High (and
Sal Mosca , 1976–79)
I Remember You... (and
Karin Krog ,
Red Mitchell , 1980)
Star Highs (1982)
A Ballad Album (1983)
Ballad for You (and Susan Chen, 1985)
Posthumous /Newly Warne (1985)
Warne Marsh & Susan Chen (1985–86)
Back Home (1986)
Two Days in the Life of... (1987)
With others