Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine [Recorded 1987-1988] (2007)
DVD5 | Video: MPEG 2, 720x480 (4:3), 29.97 fps | Audio: AC3, 48.0 KHz, 2 ch, 448 Kbps | 1,78 GB | Covers (11 MB) included
Genre: Jazz, Cool Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Salt Peanuts
One of the main players of the West Coast school of jazz, Chet Baker (1929-1988) shined both as a trumpeter and as a singer. He displayed both a forceful tone on fast tunes and a gentle and soft sound on ballads, which gained him fame even outside of jazz circles. Despite his multiple personal problems due to drug abuse, Baker was active and highly creative until the very last years of his life, which he spent living in Europe. This DVD contains performances taken from two concerts, one in Stuttgart, the other in Tokyo, where he displays his subtle magic in some of the tunes that made him famous, like "I'm Fool To Want You" and the perennial "My Funny Valentine".