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 ...

Trumpeter Chet Baker had his ups and downs. The ups: his groundbreaking work with baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan's pianoless quartet in the early to mid-fifties, followed by dozens of great early ...

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 ...

If trumpeter Chet Baker had died in 1955, in his mid-20s, he would be remembered as a golden boy cut down in his prime, a player of much promise, unfulfilled. Musically, he would be pegged as an adept ...

Ezra Collective trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi is the latest artist to pay homage to jazz legend Chet Baker as part of the forthcoming Chet Baker Re:Imagined tribute album, as his version of “Speak Low” ...

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 ...

Jazz trumpeter Chet Baker's turbulent life and wretched death have provided rich material for any number of plays and movies. James O'Reilly is the latest to tackle the life of the enigmatic and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Let’s Get Lost, photographer Bruce Weber’s relentlessly cool ode to square-jawed trumpet player Chet Baker, is either the perfect date film or the worst imaginable. Either Baker’s slicked-back, ...