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12-27-2020 09:27 PM
Felt like a little Chet Baker, and can never decide which I like better, the "cool jazz-ster's" dreamy instrumentals, or his beautifully strange, equally arresting vocals. What a talent.
So here he is singing my favorite Rodgers and Hart, "My Funny Valentine", in that slow, meditative way that gets under your skin!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPaYhemq_4I
But if you like more abstract stylings of "My Funny Valentine", here's his wandering, smoky, insinuating trumpet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgXDDrLzMVA
The young Chesney Henry ("Chet") Baker and wife Halema. What a photogenic pair.
Whatever the circumstances of his tragic end (he fell from a hotel window in Amsterdam in the late Eighties, I think), he managed to create a great deal of beauty.
12-28-2020 07:49 AM
The older I get, the more I appreciate jazz. I think I always liked it but I was in denial.
12-28-2020 09:09 AM - edited 12-28-2020 09:15 AM
Wasn't he the best looking guy back in the day? Man! What drugs can do to a person. By the time he died he looked like an old man-not a semblance of his old self.
When he came on the scene I knew his name and that he was proclaimed the 'best trumpet player in America' (his reason for starting on heroin-the stress he said). It wasn't till recently that I heard, by sheer chance, this guy singing on my fave radio station. Chet Baker. He sings??? Yes, he sings. I describe his voice as so ordinary it's captivating, hahaha. Because I can't describe it is why! He actually sings just like he plays. It's a shame he couldn't sing along with his trumpet, lol.
I love him singing, "I've Never Been in Love Before."
I like this one.
Thanks, @Oznell .
12-28-2020 10:05 AM
Funny ... I was just playing this LP (yes, an old LP) last week ... and this is my favorite vocal by Chet
12-28-2020 10:59 AM
@SoX wrote:Funny ... I was just playing this LP (yes, an old LP) last week ... and this is my favorite vocal by Chet
I Fall In Love Too Easily (Vocal Version) - YouTube
Have you heard, "It's Always You"-great lyrics.
12-28-2020 11:25 AM - edited 12-28-2020 11:35 AM
@Judaline wrote:
@SoX wrote:Funny ... I was just playing this LP (yes, an old LP) last week ... and this is my favorite vocal by Chet
I Fall In Love Too Easily (Vocal Version) - YouTube
Have you heard, "It's Always You"-great lyrics.
It's on the vinyl LP that I own ...
12-28-2020 11:42 AM - edited 12-28-2020 02:00 PM
12-28-2020 02:21 PM - edited 12-28-2020 02:22 PM
@SoX I have the CD. Guess I didn't know he could sing back then.
12-28-2020 04:24 PM
Blues and Jazz are my favorite music. I love Mingus, Miles Davis, Grover Washington, Monk to name but a few. Chet Baker's version of My Funny Valentine is excellent, his voice haunting and filled with feeling.
I always wanted to go to the Newport Jazz festival but never did. But jazz no doubt is an old and lasting type of music, it is filled with emotion and feeling, love. There have been so many jazz greats for decades and I am grateful for it all!
12-28-2020 05:37 PM
If you are a big fan like me you must see this documentary from 1989.Wonderful and sad. My Funny Valentine every year.
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