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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)

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Playboys is a 1956 jazz album featuring trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Art Pepper. 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).

Trumpeter Chet Baker and altoist Art Pepper had parallel lives. Both were among the brightest new voices in jazz in the 1950s and had the potential to become matinee idols. Both were also drug addicts and spent much time in the '60s and early '70s off the scene, with Pepper in and out of jail while Baker had his teeth knocked out. And both made improbable comebacks late in life, playing at their best during their final period despite the odds