At the end of his life, Chet Baker`s music showed all the wear he had inflicted on himself. His trumpet sound was thin. His voice raw and often out of tune. He had been through addiction, illness, ...

Early in James Gavin's finely crafted biography of the brilliant and troubled trumpeter Chet Baker, the author quotes long-time Baker associate Enrico Pieranunzi opining, "For American people, Chet ...

The modern image of trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker is a hopelessly fractious one. Baker is, at once, a brilliant musical autodidact with a superb ear while, at the same time, a musician with a ...

March 25, 2016 • Baker's legacy may be debated, but his artistry shouldn't be. On the eve of a new biopic starring Ethan Hawke, here's an introduction to the trumpeter and vocalist.

Chet Baker had $1.25 in his pocket when ,he came home from Europe last month. He scuffled around Manhattan for three weeks before he found his first night’s work; he spent the time rounding up haircut ...

You don't want to be near Ethan Hawke when he's learning to play trumpet. Filming Born to Be Blue, in which he portrays jazz icon Chet Baker, "the challenge was largely for my co-star, Carmen Ejogo, ...

“It’s almost flat. Somehow it’s still nice,” Dizzy Gillespie (Kevin Hanchard) tells Chet Baker (Ethan Hawke) in “Born to be Blue,” after the legendary West Coast jazz musician performs “My Funny ...

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 ...

Two Fine New Vinyl Releases By Chet Baker and Bill Evans Share Scandinavian Roots. Many jazz fans seem to only focus on Chet Baker’s 1950s material when he was still young and beautiful and crooning ...

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 ...