It is not the first time that jazz has been honored from rock, but it is a surprise that Amos Lee does it, more than anything else a country rocker who often demonstrated his influences from classic soul without anything even resembling the style. of white jazz that characterized Chet Baker. During the pandemic. Amos Lee had a creative block that he used to assuage by listening to a 1954 record, “Chet Baker Sings” while watching vampire movie marathons like his favorite, the Swedish film “Let The Right One In” whose macabre tones but emotional includes when interpreting his excellent version of the great standard “My Funny Valentine”. Accompanied by a combo of trumpet, piano, bass and drums, Lee puts his voice at the service of a successful selection from Baker’s repertoire, where there is no shortage of tracks like “My Buddy”, “My Ideal” or “But Not For Me” by Gershwin, always with arrangements that blend the singer’s roots, which is why sometimes this excellent record sounds as if a Motown band like the Temptations sang Chet Baker.
Source: Ambito
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