Music CD - Chet Baker: The Best of Chet Baker Sings

	Music CD: The Best of Chet Baker Sings Artist: Chet Baker List Price: $15.98 Our Price: $9.63 Your Save: $ 6.35 ( 40% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
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Tracks: 1. The Thrill Is Gone 2. But Not For Me 3. Time After Time 4. I Get Along Without You Very Well 5. There Will Never Be Another You 6. Look For The Silver Lining 7. My Funny Valentine 8. I Fall In Love Too Easily 9. Daybreak 10. Just Friends 11. I Remember You 12. Let's Get Lost 13. Long Ago And Far Away 14. You Don't Know What Love Is 15. That Old Feeling 16. It's Always You 17. I've Never Been In Love Before 18. My Buddy 19. Like Someone In Love 20. My Ideal
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0077779293223 Label: Blue Note Records Manufacturer: Blue Note Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Blue Note Records Release Date: 1989-08-04 Studio: Blue Note Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Best of Chet Baker Sings... beautiful, romantic, perfectly executed Comment: My GOSH this is a good album. Good heavens. I had never heard of Chet Baker as of a few years ago (hey, I'm 24 now... it takes me a while to catch on to these things). Occasionally on Turner Classic Movies I would hear a lovely little tune before the morning movie-- the words were cute and the singer and accompaniment were very pleasant. I finally looked up the song online and saw it was a 1920 Jerome Kern tune, "Look For the Silver Lining" and I thought, 'oh, interesting... well, I guess maybe they're using this song because it's public domain or something." Actually, no, they were using it because not just its age but also its great recording by not some studio musician but an actual famous person... Chet Baker. A lot of people complain that even his admirers admit that he "can't sing." I don't think that's true. Granted, my favorite singers are so-called 'real singers' like Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, or, to name a woman, Margaret Whiting. However! Jimmy Durante and Louis Armstrong had significantly more bizarre singing voices than Chet Baker, but they were always perfectly on tune and sang great songs with great arrangements, so people loved their vocals (especially loved are some of the lush pop arrangements both artists recorded in their later years). The same with Chet: the arrangements are minimalist, understated, and just perfect for the songs, and his fragile and always-just-right vocals leave you hanging on every delightful lyric. Never too much or too little on these songs. The best word has been said by others... "disarming". Some of my favorites from this album, other than 'Silver Lining', include the fantastic Gershwin tune 'But Not For Me' in a rather upbeat setting (compared to Ella's, for instance), the tenderly rueful 'I Get Along Without You Very Well', 'Let's Get Lost', and a pensive song I learned to love after hearing it by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, 'My Ideal.' He picked some interesting tunes to record... often lesser-known songs by better known writers were in his repertoire. I'm sorry such people have a negative view of his vocals, but these recordings really melt your heart with his baring-it-all sound and the piano and rhythm accompaniment add just the right touch to the mix. I have 700+ albums including CDs and records and I have been listening to this thing like crazy all week since I got it. This album is a steal. It's great background music or wonderful to put on and ponder. Stop reading this and buy it right now! Customer Rating: Summary: MR. COOLIST Comment: The Best of Chet Baker Sings CHET DEFINES THE WEST COAST SCHOOL OF COOL. HIS VOICE IS EXTREMELY EXPRESSIVE. HE INTERPRETS "STANDARDS" AS NEW MATERIAL. THERE ARE EXCELLANT TRUMPET SOLOS AS WELL. Customer Rating: Summary: buy this or you're fired. Comment: There's this kid who worked for me some 40 years ago. i said "Chet Baker is in town. if you dont go hear him, you're fired," he's still thanking me. Chet Baker SINGS...and alot better than most. and thats HIM in the background PLAYING. WOW! Parker came back from the coast after playing with Chetty for a few weeks. he says to Miles, "theres a white boy out there who's going to blow you away." Chet has been blowing & singing some of the Best ever since!!! buy this or you're fired. Customer Rating: Summary: WhAt'S "TeChNiCaL StAnDpOiNt"? Comment: Technical standpoint? Is that how you listen to music? Sorry. I have no idea as to "technical standpoint". The music makes me feel alive and it makes me feel good, as a bohemian should. Chet baker has over 60 albums and has remained popular for over 50 years. I doubt if anything "heard in local clubs" will ever leave a legacy close to Mr. Baker's. An acquired taste? I was hooked in the first thirty seconds of the first Chet Baker song I ever heard and I've yet to hear anything he has done to change my mind. Most folks I know that like Chet Baker feel the same. Stop thinking and listen, this music is life at its best. Customer Rating: Summary: The place to start, and to come back to Comment: Over years of listening to jazz, this is the album I most often return to. It has absolutely everything: great songs (some of the greatest). A spectacular voice unlike Frank's or Ella's or Sarah's or anyone's--a voice that's all things to all people. (Whatever you want to hear in Baker's voice--depth, surface, warmth, detachment, male, female, and just about any other pairing of opposites--is right there for the taking.) You get ballads and lilting uptempos. Accessibility (this is not music to struggle to enjoy.) Innocence and experience. Summer-afternoon arrangements to float you away. A brilliant trumpet soloist (who was, however unlikely, the same guy as the amazing vocalist). Melody and improvisation.... If I were introducing a newbie to jazz, this is the album I'd start with. Then, after you listen to a thousand others, play Chet singing again and realize: this one tops them all. How did Baker do it? He probably shouldn't have been able to, given the way he lived lived--and that too feels like a piece of this recording's pleasure. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Once Chet Baker arrived in California from his native Oklahoma, his career exploded. After landing gigs with Charlie Parker and Gerry Mulligan, Baker soon found himself a solo star and bandleader. Not long after that, he also found himself whispering love songs into a microphone. Baker was not gifted with the most robust voice of the day. Indeed, listening to pure singers like Nat "King" Cole or Johnny Hartman can expose Baker's weaknesses, but what Baker did, he did well. By choosing wistful, so-young, so-in-love tunes, Baker was able to pour his heart into the material, sketching soft, romantic moods and painting himself as the broken-hearted innocent. The effect can be devastating, as Baker's voice clings to the melody, threatening to disintegrate at any moment. Many of his best tunes--"I Fall in Love Too Easily," "But Not for Me," "Let's Get Lost"--are collected here, and as such, there is no better place to begin an appreciation of Baker's unique singing. --S. Duda