Comments on: My Funny Valentine: Journey of a Jazz Hit https://jazzfuel.com/my-funny-valentine/ Your Resource For All Things Jazz Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:21:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Stefan Soback https://jazzfuel.com/my-funny-valentine/#comment-24528 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:21:49 +0000 https://jazzfuel.com/?p=84390#comment-24528 My personal favorite version of the song would be the Gerry Mulligan quartet (with Art Farmer) on the “What is there to say” album. Brilliant!

]]> By: John L. Jones https://jazzfuel.com/my-funny-valentine/#comment-24522 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 01:47:46 +0000 https://jazzfuel.com/?p=84390#comment-24522 Two of my favorite versions are sung by one of the best female vocalist I’ve ever heard Rachelle Farrell from her cd “First Instrument” and T. C. Carson, an actor from the sitcom “Living Single.”

]]> By: Scott Dettman https://jazzfuel.com/my-funny-valentine/#comment-24520 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 01:19:45 +0000 https://jazzfuel.com/?p=84390#comment-24520 As someone who owns 20 unique versions of Funny Valentine, there is no doubt in my mind, the best version is the 13 minute recording from Chet Baker, “One Night in Tokyo”. It starts with a slow romantic dirge into a swinging blues tempo as Chet, the pianist and bass player all play extensive solos. You can find this version on YouTube.

]]> By: Leonard Alberts https://jazzfuel.com/my-funny-valentine/#comment-24333 Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:34:34 +0000 https://jazzfuel.com/?p=84390#comment-24333 Bill Evans/Jim Hall on Undercurrents. Both versions on the CD are terrific.

]]> By: Rob Peeters https://jazzfuel.com/my-funny-valentine/#comment-24332 Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:14:49 +0000 https://jazzfuel.com/?p=84390#comment-24332 My favourit “Valentine” is an instrumental from Jimmy Giuffre from his early 50’s album “Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet” It sounds like a modern classical version and it is heartbraking, I think!

]]> By: Harriet https://jazzfuel.com/my-funny-valentine/#comment-24331 Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:06:33 +0000 https://jazzfuel.com/?p=84390#comment-24331 Dakota Staton my favorite

]]> By: Willem Vroege https://jazzfuel.com/my-funny-valentine/#comment-24323 Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:46:34 +0000 https://jazzfuel.com/?p=84390#comment-24323 My favorite version: Rita Reys with the Wessel Ilcken Combo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOY6K8j917s
(and yes, I’m Dutch too….)

]]> By: Scott Hertzog https://jazzfuel.com/my-funny-valentine/#comment-23915 Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:26:20 +0000 https://jazzfuel.com/?p=84390#comment-23915 Favorite versions:

Instrumental- John Coltrane from the album My Favorite Things

Vocal – Elvis Costello from Almost Blue

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