"The breath work, the pitch control, the poignancy, the gaiety; the deeper I got inside the music, the more I fell in love with everything about it... it was a revelatory experience. It didn't just change the way I thought about these songs; it changed the way I thought about myself as a singer and a songwriter. It changed everything."
My Ideal: A Tribute to Chet Baker Sings is a 2022 studio album by American musician Amos Lee, covering the 1954 album Chet Baker Sings.
Reception
Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Matt Collar writing that covering the Great American Songbook is unexpected from Lee, whose music is generally made up of "rustic, countryfied folk and earthy R&B" and praised the vocal performance by Lee.[3] In a feature from WBGO, Trevor Smith wrote that "Amos' voice reaches new, lustrous levels throughout the project" and the tracks include "irreplaceable entries in The Great American Songbook".[4]
