Line for Lyons is a jazz standard written by Gerry Mulligan as a tribute to the west coast disc jockey Jimmy Lyons. Mulligan first recorded the tune in 1952 at the Black Hawk in San Francisco with his quartet featuring Chet Baker, and Baker later incorporated it into his own repertoire. The piece became a fixture in Mulligan and Baker’s sessions and is associated with the cool jazz era. A notable later version appears on the 1983 live album Line for Lyons, a collaboration between Stan Getz and Chet Baker, recorded in Stockholm and released on the Sonet label. The album revisits six standards from the 1950s, including Line for Lyons.
