Let's Get Lost: The Best of Chet Baker Sings by Chet Baker

I remember the first time I heard Chet Baker. Ross was playing it and I asked him, "Who is the woman singing?" He wasn't very happy with me and I think that might have started the musical education of Margarita. Now I listen a lot closer to music before I ask a question like that. Chet Baker was a jazz trumpeter who sang as well. The songs on this CD could best be described as "cool jazz." Chet sings on it, obviously, and also plays the trumpet. It's pretty mellow stuff. If I wasn't a happy person in general, this CD would really bum me out. The songs on it are all old standards, things that most people should have heard at some point in their lives, songs like "My Funny Valentine," "Let's Get Lost," and "The Thrill is Gone."

My favorite songs on the CD are "Time After Time" and "I Get Along without You Very Well." The latter song is the link below. I highly recommend listening to that version as I think it came straight from the CD. Both songs really spoke to me. They kind of say how I am feeling.

Here are my favorite lyrics in "Time After Time:"
Time after time
I tell myself that I’m
So lucky to be loving you

This is my favorite part of "I Get Along...:"
I get along without you very well
Of course, I do
Except perhaps in spring
But I should never think of spring
For that would surely break my heart in two

So now that I have bummed everyone else out too. I liked this CD even though it is sad as hell. It's a great CD to listen to on a rainy, cold day when you just stay in bed under the covers instead of going out. It probably wasn't one of the reasons why Ross bought it but it will be the reason I am keeping it. Ross liked jazz from all eras and he really liked Chet Baker. I think someday it won't be so sad to listen to and I'll remember that it's one of those great jazz recordings everyone should have in their collections.


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