My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker (Instrumental)
My Funny Valentine by Chet Baker
"After a run as Charlie Parker’s trumpeter in the Quintet during the bebop giant’s stay in L.A., Baker joined the Gerry Mulligan Quartet – famous for its eschewing of the piano, entirely, as well as Mulligan and Baker’s simpatico styles. In 1952, the quartet cut four sides for the Fantasy label (high off the recent success of Dave Brubeck), recorded live at San Francisco’s Blackhawk club. Along with two Mulligan originals, bassist Carson Smith suggested a ballad called “My Funny Valentine,” which no one in the group had ever heard before.
In James Gavin’s biography, Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, the author discusses the song’s influence on the trumpeter.
“The song fascinated Baker. It captured all he aspired to as a musician … ‘Valentine’ became his favorite song; rarely would he do a show without it, or fail to find something new in its thirty-five bars.”
The instrumental version of the song clearly resonated with Baker (the quartet recorded it again for Pacific Jazz in 1953), but not long after the Quartet versions, he decided to do a vocal album and cut “My Funny Valentine” for Chet Baker Sings (1954)."
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"After a run as Charlie Parker’s trumpeter in the Quintet during the bebop giant’s stay in L.A., Baker joined the Gerry Mulligan Quartet – famous for its eschewing of the piano, entirely, as well as Mulligan and Baker’s simpatico styles. In 1952, the quartet cut four sides for the Fantasy label (high off the recent success of Dave Brubeck), recorded live at San Francisco’s Blackhawk club. Along with two Mulligan originals, bassist Carson Smith suggested a ballad called “My Funny Valentine,” which no one in the group had ever heard before.
In James Gavin’s biography, Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, the author discusses the song’s influence on the trumpeter.
“The song fascinated Baker. It captured all he aspired to as a musician … ‘Valentine’ became his favorite song; rarely would he do a show without it, or fail to find something new in its thirty-five bars.”
The instrumental version of the song clearly resonated with Baker (the quartet recorded it again for Pacific Jazz in 1953), but not long after the Quartet versions, he decided to do a vocal album and cut “My Funny Valentine” for Chet Baker Sings (1954)."
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