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Track Listings
| 1. My Funny Valentine |
| 2. Someone To Watch Over Me |
| 3. Moonlight Becomes You |
| 4. This Is Always |
| 5. I'm Glad There Is You |
| 6. Time After Time |
| 7. Sweet Lorraine |
| 8. It's Always You |
| 9. 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 |
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59 of 61 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I'm amazed that no one has reviewed this fabulous CD - it's such a gem that I had to rectify this situation, in the hope a review might draw some people's attention to this album.
Subtitled "Chet Baker sings and plays for lovers", 'My Funny Valentine' gives Frank Sinatra's similarly themed albums of the same era a run for its money. There is no way any man or woman could fall for the winning combination of Chet Baker's breezy trumpet playing and gorgeous voice. Combined with his James Dean-style looks, one can easily see how he became jazz's first heart-throb. This album includes beautiful readings of such standards as "Someone To Watch Over Me", "Like Someone In Love" (as covered by Bjork on 'Debut') and of course, his definitive version of "My Funny Valentine" - a song that has been recorded by everyone from Elvis Costello, Nico, and Barbra Streisand to Miles Davis and (of course) Frank Sinatra. Chet Baker's version was the inspiration behind Matt Damon's rendition of this song in the film "the Talented Mr. Ripley."
Another standout is Chet's signature song, "Let's get lost", an exuberant love song that really swings.
If you are having a special evening with a certain someone and want to set the mood, this album is perfect - with a smoky, lights down low feel.
Incidentally, if the melody to "Isn't It Romantic?" sounds familiar - it appears midway through the infamous Frank Zappa song "Punky's Whips"!
if you enjoy this, check out the similarly themed "Embraceable You" (also on pacific jazz) and "the Italian sessions".
Subtitled "Chet Baker sings and plays for lovers", 'My Funny Valentine' gives Frank Sinatra's similarly themed albums of the same era a run for its money. There is no way any man or woman could fall for the winning combination of Chet Baker's breezy trumpet playing and gorgeous voice. Combined with his James Dean-style looks, one can easily see how he became jazz's first heart-throb. This album includes beautiful readings of such standards as "Someone To Watch Over Me", "Like Someone In Love" (as covered by Bjork on 'Debut') and of course, his definitive version of "My Funny Valentine" - a song that has been recorded by everyone from Elvis Costello, Nico, and Barbra Streisand to Miles Davis and (of course) Frank Sinatra. Chet Baker's version was the inspiration behind Matt Damon's rendition of this song in the film "the Talented Mr. Ripley."
Another standout is Chet's signature song, "Let's get lost", an exuberant love song that really swings.
If you are having a special evening with a certain someone and want to set the mood, this album is perfect - with a smoky, lights down low feel.
Incidentally, if the melody to "Isn't It Romantic?" sounds familiar - it appears midway through the infamous Frank Zappa song "Punky's Whips"!
if you enjoy this, check out the similarly themed "Embraceable You" (also on pacific jazz) and "the Italian sessions".
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I cannot believe how cheap this cd is. This is truly a wonderful album that is up there with my other favourite Chet cds and yet it has a bargain basement price. If you buy it I promise you wont be disappointed.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The term `laid-back` must have been invented to describe Chet Baker`s singing as well as his trumpet playing. The epitome of fifties cool, one can imagine Kerouac, Cassidy and their strung-out friends putting on Chet after a night of Charlie Parker and the more upbeat jazz players of the era. Music that`s good to play the morning after...
This is a compilation, but a sensitively assembled one, from sessions in the mid-50s with a variety of sidemen, the one constant being the quietly expressive piano of Russ Freeman. Pretty much all the Chet `favourites` are here, with one sad, inexplicable omission: I would have loved a version of My Ideal, a song that became associated with Baker and would have made this selection of standards near-perfect.
I can`t agree with my fellow-reviewer that these performances give Sinatra`s albums of the same decade `a run for their money`. For one thing, Chet`s ethereal vocals are so determinedly languid, so achingly redolent of fifties cool, that it becomes something of a mannerism, a problem not so apparent in his playing, though there are times on these tracks where just a little more expressiveness from his trumpet wouldn`t have gone amiss. Chet`s slightly lisping, deadpan vocal style will drive some people to distraction, and I must admit I have to be in the mood for his fragile approach. When I am, it can be an almost purifying experience.
Nice to hear Like Someone In Love, which inspired none other than Bjork`s joyous version on her Debut. Most of the usual suspects are here, including Sweet Lorraine, Time After Time, the tender Moon Love, and Let`s Get Lost, which must be one of the best song titles anyone ever came up with, especially in that age of cool jazz and beat poets.
The singer who most resembles Chet is surely our own, very fine Robert Wyatt, who also sings deadpan, if about an octave higher, but in no less a languid style, though not always in a jazz mode.
Although this is a bargain CD, it gives short measure at a mere 45 minutes, but will give much pleasure too. I do wish they`d included My Ideal, though...
This is a compilation, but a sensitively assembled one, from sessions in the mid-50s with a variety of sidemen, the one constant being the quietly expressive piano of Russ Freeman. Pretty much all the Chet `favourites` are here, with one sad, inexplicable omission: I would have loved a version of My Ideal, a song that became associated with Baker and would have made this selection of standards near-perfect.
I can`t agree with my fellow-reviewer that these performances give Sinatra`s albums of the same decade `a run for their money`. For one thing, Chet`s ethereal vocals are so determinedly languid, so achingly redolent of fifties cool, that it becomes something of a mannerism, a problem not so apparent in his playing, though there are times on these tracks where just a little more expressiveness from his trumpet wouldn`t have gone amiss. Chet`s slightly lisping, deadpan vocal style will drive some people to distraction, and I must admit I have to be in the mood for his fragile approach. When I am, it can be an almost purifying experience.
Nice to hear Like Someone In Love, which inspired none other than Bjork`s joyous version on her Debut. Most of the usual suspects are here, including Sweet Lorraine, Time After Time, the tender Moon Love, and Let`s Get Lost, which must be one of the best song titles anyone ever came up with, especially in that age of cool jazz and beat poets.
The singer who most resembles Chet is surely our own, very fine Robert Wyatt, who also sings deadpan, if about an octave higher, but in no less a languid style, though not always in a jazz mode.
Although this is a bargain CD, it gives short measure at a mere 45 minutes, but will give much pleasure too. I do wish they`d included My Ideal, though...
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