Search - Chet Baker, Boto :: Brasilian Quartet

A unique version of Forgetfull

Juan Gregorio Nazar Boulin | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 08/21/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is a good album indeed, mostly fussion shaped, with very interesting touches of bossa, thanks to the happy coincidence that Baker met -in a underground pub- a couple of brazilian youngters, exiliated from their country, in the late 70's. It's a very elaborated, soft, coherently shaped album. But there is a truly fantastic item this album has: its unique version of Forgetfull. Although Chet had sung this well known standard in some previous records, never had he expressed, sung and played it in such a perfect, almost unbearably cool way. The disc alone is a pretty good "investment", yet, in my humble oppinion, the crown jewel is this version of "Forgetfull", for which I would buy this cd ten thousand times."