I Fall in Love Too Easily

Chet Baker · 1954 (year to be confirmed)

Context

Written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn for the film Anchors Aweigh and sung by Frank Sinatra, this ballad becomes an emblem of Chet Baker. His version, released on Chet Baker Sings on Pacific Jazz, shows his fragile voice and discreet trumpet, and marks his debut as a singer alongside his trumpet playing.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to West Coast, Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of West Coast: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Cool (Birth of the Cool), Bossa nova, jazz samba.

By the same artist

• My Funny Valentine (1954)
• The Wind (1954)
• But Not for Me (1954)
• Let's Get Lost (1955)
• Indian Summer (Scheveningen, 1955) (1955)

Sources

• EN: I Fall in Love Too Easily
• EN: Chet Baker Sings

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