Chet Baker (Baker's Holiday,1965) - 01 Travelin' Light | Текст песни

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Chet Baker - Baker’s Holiday (Plays Billie Holiday)
Genre: Jazz / cool, West Coast
Original Release Date: April 30, 1965
Tracks: 10
Time: 46:44
Label: Verve/Polygram

BAKER’’S HOLIDAY is an endearing and smoky tribute to singing legend Billie Holiday.
Backed by a smartly arranged reed section, Chet Baker and his quartet swing with great dynamism
on all 10 tracks. Jimmy Mundy’’s arrangements give this album the feel of a 1940’’s big band,
and Baker seems comfortable recreating some of the mystique and elegance of a bygone era.
On this album, Baker plays only the flugelhorn; the instrument’’s dark and mellow tone only adds
to Baker’’s already wistful sense of melodiousness. We hear this most poignantly on “Don’’t
Explain,” a composition co-written by Billie Holiday herself. Here, Baker mournfully “sings”
the melody on his horn, while an English horn echoes him hauntingly. Baker sings on four of the
10 tracks, and his boyish, soft-spoken singing style is right at home with these classic tunes.
Here, without copying Holiday, Baker through his elusive musical genius conjures her magic.

Personnel:
Chet Baker, flugelhorn
verett Barksdale, guitar
Leon Cohen, reeds
Richard Anthony Davis, bass
Henry Freeman, reeds
Wilford Holcombe, reeds
Hank Jones, piano
Connie Kay, drums
Seldon Powell, reeds
Alan Ross, reeds

Tracks:
1. Travelin’’ Light (Mercer, Mundy, Young) 3:08
2. Easy Living (Rainger, Robin) 3:21
3. That Ole Devil Called Love (Fisher, Roberts) 3:16
4. You’’re My Thrill (Clare, Gorney) 2:58
5. Crazy She Calls Me (Russell, Sigman) 3:20
6. When Your Lover Has Gone (Swan) 2:54
7. Mean to Me (Ahlert, Turk) 3:35
8. These Foolish Things (Link, Marvell, Strachey) 3:30
9. There Is No Greater Love (Jones, Symes) 2:34
10. Don’’t Explain (Herzog, Holiday) 3:27