Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine
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Artist: Chet BakerEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1994-01-25
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- My Funny Valentine
- Someone To Watch Over Me
- Moonlight Becomes You
- This Is Always
- I'm Glad There Is You
- Time After Time
- Sweet Lorraine
- It's Always You
- Let's Get Lost
- Moon Love
- Like Someone In Love
- I've Never Been In Love Before
- Isn't It Romantic?
- I Fall In Love Too Easily
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Music Review: Lovely early recordings from Chet Baker
Rating: 4 Stars
I don't know how well regarded this Chet Baker album is, but it is damn good. I was first introduced to this excellent trumpeter and balladeer through his quiet, mysterious and mournful version of 'My Funny Valentine', which serves as not only the title of this album, but as the opening track. I was instantly struck by his strange, soft voice and style, and his approach to this number was almost eerie and spooky-sounding. This album, I feel, is a great introduction to him as well as the West Coast Jazz scene of the 1950's that dominated the glamorous nightlife of Hollywood. It is an excellent collection of standards by songwriting greats, many of which are some of my personal all-time favorites. His renderings of tunes like 'I'm Glad There Is you' with his striking and melodic brand of trumpet-playing, an excellently-pieced together 'Time After Time', and a quintessential version of the lovelorn 'I Fall in Love Too Easily' that closes the album will leave you breathless and are truly gems to behold. His voice is so sensitive and heartbreaking, it can sway the song from sounding sad to sounding all-out hopeless.Baker could take almost any song, no matter how midtempo or easygoing the arrangement, and develop it with his style, so that it had a kind of dejected and mournful vibe. All of the fourteen cuts on this album are proof of that. There were few jazz musicians working in the 1950's that were really adopting traditional forms of barroom jazz and saloon songs with their own touch and style, and remaining respectful. This is a great example of such though. A classic album for any jazz fan's collection.
Description of My Funny Valentine
14 tracks. Chet Baker Plays And Sings For Lovers. STILL SEALED with small thin saw cut into title spine.Jazz CDs
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