Chet Baker, a name synonymous with cool jazz, left an indelible mark on the world of music with his evocative trumpet playing and hauntingly beautiful vocals. His career, spanning from the early 1950s ...

It’s too bad that more people don’t know about both Baker and Sheldon, so they could choose for themselves, rather than having the publicity machine choose for them. The question I ask here is: While ...

Blue Note will release box sets from two legends of jazz this fall. (But what else is new?) A three-disc box set compiling work by trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker titled Prince of Cool will be released ...

And yet the two men were, in fact, close friends. Sheldon, who was two years younger, idolized Baker, though he was careful not to emulate the slightly older trumpeter’s lifestyle. In the late 1960s ...

There's some good news for fans of Chet Baker. New music by the late acclaimed jazz trumpeter and singer has just been released, 37 years after his death. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to ...

The three years from 1949 to 1951, when the heat of bebop cooled in an instant. Miles Davis's nine-piece ensemble that ...

Ethan Hawke is to play legendary trumpeter Chet Baker in an upcoming biopic. The Before Midnight actor will portray the late musician in Born to Be Blue, a film based on Baker's troubled life and ...

Baker’s lyrical trumpet is made for the ballad, and his readings of “Polka Dots and Moonbeams,” from the great Chet Baker in New York recording and “Stairway to the Stars” epitomize his sensuous ...

Sometimes known as the James Dean of jazz, trumpeter Chet Baker was among the most photogenic of jazz musicians. Yet by the time he died in 1988, a descent into heroin addiction had so transformed his ...

Both jazz biopics, and “Born to Be Blue,” comment on our own genre expectations and the fate of the Hollywood standby the jazz biopic. By Salamishah Tillet Ethan Hawke plays Chet Baker in this ...

Jazz, trumpeter Chet Baker was among the most photogenic of jazz musicians. Yet by the time he died in 1988 at age 58, heroin addiction had so transformed his once-boyish appearance that he looked ...

The ‘Boyhood’ star is ready to get lost in the jazz trumpeter biopic By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Ethan Hawke has signed on to play Chet Baker in a new biopic about the legendary jazz ...