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Chet Baker Sings! (CD)

By: Chet Baker (Artist)

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Chet Baker Artist Snapshot:

As the poster boy for cool jazz in the '50s, trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker symbolized, at least briefly, that decade's soulful underside. But rather than ascend the throne of celebrity, he remained the outsider, the quintessential beautiful loser. For the next three decades, Baker wandered in and out of the spotlight, with moments of brilliance scattered amidst physical decline and personal travails. After getting his teeth knocked out in a drug-related scuffle, he quit playing for years. When he finally returned he was still powerful, but something of a haunted presence. An acclaimed Baker documentary, LET'S GET LOST, was released in 1987, but the next year Baker fell out of a window while under the influence of drugs and died a death as tragic as much of his genius-speckled life.

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DISC 1 for Chet Baker Sings! (CD) Album By Chet Baker (Artist)
1   That Old Feeling
2   It's Always You
3   Like Someone In Love
4   My Ideal
5   I've Never Been In Love Before
6   My Buddy
7   But Not For Me
8   Time After Time
9   I Get Along Without You Very Well
10   My Funny Valentine
11   There Will Never Be Another You
12   Thrill Is Gone, The
13   I Fall In Love Too Easily
14   Look For The Silver Lining
 

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Q (4/99, p.128) - Included in Q's "Best Jazz Albums of All Time."
Q (p.44) - "[H]is trumpet playing was breathy, understated and wistfully languid, and he sang the same way..."

Title Note

Personnel: Chet Baker (vocals, trumpet); Russ Freeman (piano, celeste); James Bond, Carson Smith (bass); Peter Littman, Lawrence Marable, Bob Neel (drums).

Recorded at the Forum Theatre, Los Angeles, California on July 23 & 30, 1956; Capitol Studios, Hollywood, California on February 15, 1954. Includes liner notes by Richard Brock and Gerlad Heard.

Chet Baker made his musical debut in 1952 as an integral member of Gerry Mulligan's modernist piano-less quartet, by all accounts marking the beginning of the post-bop West Coast style. So it came as quite a shock when Baker made his singing debut on this seminal 1954 release, he sounded less like a member of the cool school than a boy crooner straight out of the '40s!

Actually, left to his own non-Mulligan devices, Chet Baker the instrumentalist was not an innovator in the post-bebop mode. What his sideline singing did reveal were his songful roots in the swing of Harry James and other formative influences. Still, the bland innocence of Chet Baker's All-American vocals can make for an eerily "cool" listening experience in this context. And an authentically satisfying one, as his definitive version of "My Funny Valentine" should make clear. Throughout, pianist Russ Freeman's warm, solid touch provides the perfect foil for Baker's affectless Romanticism.

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