Silent Nights: A Christmas Jazz Album

~ Release by Chet Baker & Christopher Mason (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Tracklist

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1Silent Night, Part 1
alto saxophone:
Christopher Mason (on 1986-01-07)
double bass:
Jim Singleton (on 1986-01-07)
drums (drum set):
Johnny Vidacovich (Jazz drummer) (on 1986-01-07)
piano:
Mike Pellara (on 1986-01-07)
trumpet:
Chet Baker (American jazz trumpeter and vocalist)
instrumental recording of:
Silent Night (Christmas carol, English translation) (on 1986-01-07)
lyricist:
Josef Mohr (composer/author) (in 1816)
composer:
Franz Xaver Gruber (composer/author) (in 1818)
translator:
John Freeman Young (in 1859)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 27088)
translated version of:
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
3:00
2The First Noel
alto saxophone:
Christopher Mason (on 1986-01-07)
double bass:
Jim Singleton (on 1986-01-07)
drums (drum set):
Johnny Vidacovich (Jazz drummer) (on 1986-01-07)
piano:
Mike Pellara (on 1986-01-07)
trumpet:
Chet Baker (American jazz trumpeter and vocalist) (on 1986-01-07)
instrumental recording of:
The First Nowell
lyricist, writer and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 682)
2:12
3We Three Kings
alto saxophone:
Christopher Mason (on 1986-01-07)
double bass:
Jim Singleton (on 1986-01-07)
drums (drum set):
Johnny Vidacovich (Jazz drummer) (on 1986-01-07)
piano:
Mike Pellara (on 1986-01-07)
trumpet:
Chet Baker (American jazz trumpeter and vocalist) (on 1986-01-07)
instrumental recording of:
We Three Kings (on 1986-01-07)
lyricist and composer:
John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (composer, “We Three Kings”)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 24751)
2:33
4Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
alto saxophone:
Christopher Mason (on 1986-01-07)
double bass:
Jim Singleton (on 1986-01-07)
drums (drum set):
Johnny Vidacovich (Jazz drummer) (on 1986-01-07)
piano:
Mike Pellara (on 1986-01-07)
trumpet:
Chet Baker (American jazz trumpeter and vocalist) (on 1986-01-07)
instrumental recording of:
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Christmas carol) (on 1986-01-07)
additional lyricist:
George Whitefield (in 1753)
lyricist:
Charles Wesley (hymn writer) (in 1739)
composer:
Felix Mendelssohn (composer) (in 1840)
arranger:
William H. Cummings (in 1855)
part of:
The New English Hymnal (hymn book) (number: 26)
2:06
5Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
alto saxophone:
Christopher Mason (on 1986-01-07)
double bass:
Jim Singleton (on 1986-01-07)
drums (drum set):
Johnny Vidacovich (Jazz drummer) (on 1986-01-07)
piano:
Mike Pellara (on 1986-01-07)
trumpet:
Chet Baker (American jazz trumpeter and vocalist) (on 1986-01-07)
instrumental recording of:
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen (on 1986-01-07)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
C. Mose Music
4:01
6Amazing Grace
alto saxophone:
Christopher Mason (on 1986-01-07)
double bass:
Jim Singleton (on 1986-01-07)
drums (drum set):
Johnny Vidacovich (Jazz drummer) (on 1986-01-07)
piano:
Mike Pellara (on 1986-01-07)
trumpet:
Chet Baker (American jazz trumpeter and vocalist) (on 1986-01-07)
instrumental recording of:
Amazing Grace (popular hymn first published 1779, catch‐all) (on 1986-01-07)
publisher:
Alfred Music (publisher of sheet music for music education)
lyricist:
John Newton (English poet) (in 1779)
additional composer:
Edwin Othello Excell
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Carlin Music Corporation, EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated), Patterdale Music Ltd., Rokstone Music Ltd., Universal Classics & Jazz (Japanese label division - read the annotation before using!), Universal Music Publishing Group Japan (work publisher – do NOT use as a release label), イーエムアイ音楽出版 C・F事業部 (EMI Music Publishing Japan C.F. division) (until 2021-06-30) and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング EMI外国事業部 (Sony Music Publishing (Japan) Inc., EMI Overseas Division, sub‐publisher for non‐Japanese works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
part of:
Viisikielinen (song book of “Viides herätysliike”) (number: 94)
3:43
7Come All Ye Faithful
alto saxophone:
Christopher Mason (on 1986-01-07)
double bass:
Jim Singleton (on 1986-01-07)
drums (drum set):
Johnny Vidacovich (Jazz drummer) (on 1986-01-07)
piano:
Mike Pellara (on 1986-01-07)
trumpet:
Chet Baker (American jazz trumpeter and vocalist) (on 1986-01-07)
instrumental recording of:
O Come, All Ye Faithful (English version of Latin “Adeste fideles”) (on 1986-01-07)
lyricist and composer:
John Francis Wade (from 1740 until 1743)
translator:
Frederick Oakeley (in 1841)
arrangement of:
O Come, All Ye Faithful
translated version of:
Adeste fideles (original latin version)
4:33
8Joy to the World
alto saxophone:
Christopher Mason (on 1986-01-07)
double bass:
Jim Singleton (on 1986-01-07)
drums (drum set):
Johnny Vidacovich (Jazz drummer) (on 1986-01-07)
piano:
Mike Pellara (on 1986-01-07)
trumpet:
Chet Baker (American jazz trumpeter and vocalist) (on 1986-01-07)
instrumental recording of:
Joy to the World (Christmas carol) (on 1986-01-07)
lyricist:
Isaac Watts (hymn writer) (in 1719)
composer:
George Frideric Handel (German‐British baroque composer)
arranger:
Lowell Mason (in 1839)
2:45
9Amen
alto saxophone:
Christopher Mason (on 1986-01-07)
double bass:
Jim Singleton (on 1986-01-07)
drums (drum set):
Johnny Vidacovich (Jazz drummer) (on 1986-01-07)
piano:
Mike Pellara (on 1986-01-07)
trumpet:
Chet Baker (American jazz trumpeter and vocalist) (on 1986-01-07)
1:46
10It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
alto saxophone:
Christopher Mason (on 1986-01-07)
double bass:
Jim Singleton (on 1986-01-07)
drums (drum set):
Johnny Vidacovich (Jazz drummer) (on 1986-01-07)
piano:
Mike Pellara (on 1986-01-07)
trumpet:
Chet Baker (American jazz trumpeter and vocalist) (on 1986-01-07)
instrumental recording of:
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (carol version) (on 1986-01-07)
lyricist:
Edmund Sears (American church author)
composer:
Richard Storrs Willis
part of:
The New English Hymnal (hymn book) (number: 29)
is based on:
CAROL (hymn tune)
is based on:
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (poem)
2:01
11Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
alto saxophone:
Christopher Mason (on 1986-01-07)
double bass:
Jim Singleton (on 1986-01-07)
drums (drum set):
Johnny Vidacovich (Jazz drummer) (on 1986-01-07)
piano:
Mike Pellara (on 1986-01-07)
trumpet:
Chet Baker (American jazz trumpeter and vocalist) (on 1986-01-07)
recording of:
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (on 1986-01-07)
lyricist and composer:
Wallace Willis (in 1862)
publisher:
E.C. Music (UK work publisher for Eric Clapton), Throat Music and Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 5435)
3:29
12Silent Night, Part 2
alto saxophone:
Christopher Mason (on 1986-01-07)
double bass:
Jim Singleton (on 1986-01-07)
drums (drum set):
Johnny Vidacovich (Jazz drummer) (on 1986-01-07)
piano:
Mike Pellara (on 1986-01-07)
trumpet:
Chet Baker (American jazz trumpeter and vocalist) (on 1986-01-07)
instrumental recording of:
Silent Night (Christmas carol, English translation)
lyricist:
Josef Mohr (composer/author) (in 1816)
composer:
Franz Xaver Gruber (composer/author) (in 1818)
translator:
John Freeman Young (in 1859)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 27088)
translated version of:
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
4:03