Chet Baker
Voice Solo on
You Make Me Feel So Young

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Chet Baker's voice solo is the opening of 2 solos on this recording, before Kenny Drew's closing piano statement. Spanning one chorus of the 40-bar AABA' form at a medium-up 152 BPM with a swing feel in B♭, the solo runs approximately 1:03. The 40-bar AABA' form, slightly longer than the standard 32-bar structure, gives Baker extra room to develop his vocal ideas, and he uses the space well, finding creative rhythmic variations while maintaining the song's infectious energy. Chet Baker was 28 to 29 years old at the time of this 1958 recording.

Chet Baker was 28 to 29 years old at the time.