Home » Search Center » Results: Chet Baker Sings
Results for "Chet Baker Sings"
Backgrounder: The Complete Chet Baker Sings
The first songs trumpeter Chet Baker recorded on which he sang were I Fall in Love Too Easily and The Thrill is Gone in October 1953. What struck listeners then and now was his vulnerable articulation, the humid romanticism and relaxed androgyny of his voice. Previously, no male singer had approached vocalizing this way. What made ...
Chet Baker’s Singing: A Cultural Shift
by S.G Provizer
We think of the 1950's as a time of relative social conformity, but in fact, there were significant cultural shifts happening. For one, male stereotypes were being unpacked and to some degree, unfrozen. Where once films and music gave us male characters that were either hyper-macho or limp-wristedly homosexual, male characters and performers who showed emotional ...
Chet Baker Sings
by Mark Barnett
Getting Started If you're new to jazz, go to our Getting Into Jazz primer for some hints on how to listen. CD capsule Trumpeter Chet Baker's singing still provokes debate. Some love it, others wish he'd saved his singing for the shower. Here's a chance to make up your own mind by ...
Chet Baker Sings
By Chet Baker
Label: WaxTimeRecords
Released: 1964
Track listing: But Not For Me; Time After Time; My Funny Valentine; I Fall In Love Too Easily; There Will Never Be Another You; I Get Along Without You Very Well; The Thrill Is Gone; Look For The Silver Lining;
