It’s funny how music can provide such vivid imagery of a place and time you haven’t experienced. Chet Baker Sings is the sound I hear when I imagine what it would be like to sit down at a romantic white tablecloth dinner in New York City in the 1950’s, dressed in a suit with a fedora on my head and a cigarette in my mouth. It’s vintage vocal jazz, the kind of music built for piano players playing five nights a week at an upscale hotel bar (think White Lotus season 2). I nearly expected to hear soft polite clapping at the end of every track.
Baker’s crystal clean vocals never waver off pitch, the notes as clean as the saxophone and piano that accompany his voice. Understated and impeccably done.
Standout Songs: “It’s Always You”, “That Old Feeling”, “My Funny Valentine”
