Let's Get Lost

Chet Baker · 1955

Context

Song by Jimmy McHugh (music) and Frank Loesser (lyrics) recorded by Chet Baker on March 7, 1955 at the Capitol studios in Hollywood for Pacific Jazz, opening the album Chet Baker Sings and Plays produced by Richard Bock. Sung in a soft voice without vibrato, it helped establish the image of West Coast jazz's leading man; its title was reused for Bruce Weber's 1988 documentary on Baker.

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

• Indian Summer (Scheveningen, 1955) (1955)
• I Fall in Love Too Easily (1954)
• My Funny Valentine (1954)
• The Wind (1954)
• But Not for Me (1954)

Sources

• EN: Chet Baker Sings and Plays

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