My Ideal: A Tribute to Chet Baker Sings

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My Ideal: A Tribute to Chet Baker Sings
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 18, 2022 (2022-11-18)
StudioRittenhouse Soundworks, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Genre Vocal jazz [1]
Length51:31
LanguageEnglish
Label Dualtone Records
Producer David Stream
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"The breath work, the pitch control, the poignancy, the gaiety; the deeper I got inside the music, the more I fell in love with everything about it... it was a revelatory experience. It didn't just change the way I thought about these songs; it changed the way I thought about myself as a singer and a songwriter. It changed everything."

Contents

—Amos Lee on appreciating the work of Chet Baker [2]

My Ideal: A Tribute to Chet Baker Sings is a 2022 studio album by American musician Amos Lee, covering the 1954 album Chet Baker Sings .

Reception

Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Matt Collar writing that covering the Great American Songbook is unexpected from Lee, whose music is generally made up of "rustic, countryfied folk and earthy R&B" and praised the vocal performance by Lee. [3] In a feature from WBGO, Trevor Smith wrote that "Amos' voice reaches new, lustrous levels throughout the project" and the tracks include "irreplaceable entries in The Great American Songbook". [4]

Track listing

  1. "That Old Feeling" (lyrics: Lew Brown, music: Sammy Fain) – 3:22
  2. "It’s Always You" (lyrics: Johnny Burke, music: Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:46
  3. "Like Someone in Love" (lyrics: Burke, music: Van Heusen) – 2:31
  4. "My Ideal" (lyrics: Leo Robin and Richard A. Whiting, music: Newell Chase) – 3:26
  5. "I’ve Never Been in Love Before" (Frank Loesser) – 4:24
  6. "My Buddy" (lyrics: Gus Kahn, music: Walter Donaldson) – 3:18
  7. "But Not for Me" (lyrics: Ira Gershwin, music: George Gershwin) – 2:24
  8. "Time After Time" (lyrics: Sammy Cahn, music: Jule Styne) – 2:51
  9. "I Get Along Without You Very Well" (lyrics: Jane Brown Thompson, music: Hoagy Carmichael) – 2:54
  10. "My Funny Valentine (For Oskar and Eli)" (lyrics: Lorenz Hart, music: Richard Rodgers) – 2:07
  11. "There Will Never Be Another You" (lyrics: Mack Gordon, music: Harry Warren) – 3:10
  12. "The Thrill Is Gone" (Jules Bihari, Rick Darnell, Roy Hawkins, and B. B. King) – 2:33
  13. "I Fall in Love Too Easily" (lyrics: Cahn, music: Styne) – 3:24
  14. "Look for the Silver Lining" (lyrics: Buddy DeSylva, music: Jerome Kern) – 2:46
  15. "Everything Happens to Me" (lyrics: Tom Adair, music: Matt Dennis) – 3:06
  16. "I’m Old Fashioned" (lyrics: Johnny Mercer, music: Kern) – 5:29

Personnel

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References

  1. Keefer (November 4, 2022). "Amos Lee celebrates Chet Baker with My Ideal". KBCO . Retrieved October 14, 2023.
  2. Mancini, Maggie (November 3, 2022). "Amos Lee to release tribute album to jazz legend Chet Baker". Culture. PhillyVoice . Retrieved October 14, 2023.
  3. Collar, Matt (n.d.). "Amos Lee – My Ideal: A Tribute to Chet Baker Sings". AllMusic . RhythmOne . Retrieved October 14, 2023.
  4. Smith, Trevor (November 21, 2022). "Singer-songwriter Amos Lee does a deep dive into the sound of Chet Baker's vocals". Music. WBGO . Retrieved October 14, 2023.