Claude says:Chet Baker's 1954 debut vocal record is the sound of cool jazz distilled into pure, almost fragile intimacy—his trumpet had already defined the era, but his voice was something else entirely, intimate enough to make you lean in. You found your way to it recently and sat with "My Funny Valentine" and that devastating "I Get Along Without You Very Well," the kind of songs that only work when sung by someone who sounds like he's already lost something.