There Will Never Be Another You

Chet Baker · 1954 · Standard de Warren et Gordon

Context

Title track of the album Gentleman, on which Fela mocks Africans who adopt European clothes and manners. He plays tenor saxophone on the nine-minute introduction before switching to electric piano for the vocal parts.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to West Coast, Cool (Birth of the Cool), 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

• I Fall in Love Too Easily (1954)
• My Funny Valentine (1954)
• The Wind (1954)
• But Not for Me (1954)
• I Get Along Without You Very Well (1954)
• The Thrill Is Gone (1954)

Sources

• EN: Chet Baker Sings

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