The Best of Chet Baker Sings Chet Baker

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  • Release Date: 08/04/1989
  • Sales Rank: 12,515
  • Label: BLUE NOTE RECORDS
  • UPC: 077779293223

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The Best of Chet Baker Sings

1LISTENThe Thrill Is Gone 2:46
2LISTENBut Not for Me 3:00
3LISTENTime After Time 2:44
4LISTENI Get Along Without You Very Well 2:56
5LISTENThere Will Never Be Another You 2:56
6LISTENLook for the Silver Lining 2:36
7LISTENMy Funny Valentine 2:15
8LISTENI Fall in Love Too Easily 3:18
9LISTENDaybreak 2:38
10LISTENJust Friends 2:40
11LISTENI Remember You 3:12
12LISTENLet's Get Lost 3:41
13LISTENLong Ago (and Far Away) 3:55
14LISTENYou Don't Know What Love Is 4:48
15LISTENThat Old Feeling 2:59
16LISTENIt's Always You 3:31
17LISTENI've Never Been in Love Before 4:23
18LISTENMy Buddy 3:16
19LISTENLike Someone in Love 2:23
20LISTENMy Ideal 4:19

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To much of the pop (as opposed to the jazz) audience, Chet Baker was known not as an able cool jazz trumpeter, but as a romantic balladeer. The two classifications were not mutually exclusive; Baker's vocal numbers would also feature his trumpet playing, as well as fine instrumental support from West Coast cool jazzers. For those who prefer the vocal side of the Baker canon, this is an excellent compilation of his best vintage material in that mode. The 20 tracks draw from sessions covering the era when he was generally conceded to be at his vocal peak (1953-1956), and are dominated by standards from the likes of Rodgers & Hart, Carmichael, Gershwin, and Kern. Baker's singing was white and naïve in the best senses, with a quavering, uncertain earnestness that embodied a certain (safe) strain of mid-'50s bohemianism. That's the Baker heard on this collection, which contains some his most famous interpretations, including "My Funny Valentine," "Time After Time," "There Will Never Be Another You," and "Let's Get Lost." Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

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