Chet Baker

My Funny Valentine (51011)

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My Funny Valentine

Chet Baker

JazzTwin

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JTW 150702

51011

JAZZ

1

CD 9,95 €

Although Chet Baker had already received recognition as a brilliant trumpeter, the music presented on this CD would also earn him widespread popularity as a vocalist. These songs were a revelation at the time and gained NBaker a new audience, which was less familiar with jazz than with pop music. The reasons are quite clear: Chet’s voice is tender and beautiful, and at the same time his phrasing, with respect to both his vocals and trumpet playing, always swings and surprises. Among the various classics, this collection opens and closes with different versions of “My Funny Valentine”, which would become almost a theme song for Baker.

PERSONNEL:

CHET BAKER, trumpet & vocals
With:

Collective personnel:
Bob Brookmeyer (v-tb), Bud Shank (bar), Russ Freeman (p),
Carson Smith, Red Mitchell (b),
Shelly Manne, Bob Neel (d), among others.
Recorded in Los Angeles and Milan (track 20) in 1954-59.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01 MY FUNNY VALENTINE [1954 version]
02 SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
03 MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU
04 THIS IS ALWAYS
05 I’M GLAD THERE’S YOU
06 TIME AFTER TIME
07 SWEET LORRAINE
08 IT’S ALWAYS YOU
09 LET’S GET LOST
10 MOON LOVE
11 LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
12 I’VE NEVER BEEN IN LOVE BEFORE
13 ISN’T IT ROMANTIC?
14 I FALL IN LOVE TOO EASILY
15 I WISH I KNEW
16 LUSH LIFE
17 JUST FRIENDS
18 LOVE NEST
19 I REMEMBER YOU
20 MY FUNNY VALENTINE [1959 version]

TOTAL TIME: 76:27 Min.