Chet Baker was born to a farmer's daughter and a hard-drinking, weed-smoking singer and guitarist in a Western Swing band in Yale, Oklahoma in 1929. Like many Okies, the family fared badly during the ...

Jazz Detective, the label founded in 2022 by GRAMMY-nominated archival producer Zev Feldman, will release Blue Room: The 1979 VARA Studio Sessions in Holland, a superlative, previously unreleased set ...

Well known local jazz trumpeter Liam Nadurak will return to the Nexus at First Community for a special performance showcasing the work of Chet Baker on Thursday, Jan. 29.

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 ...

Jazz Detective, the label founded in 2022 by GRAMMY-nominated archival producer Zev Feldman, will release Blue Room: The 1979 VARA Studio Sessions in Holland, a superlative, previously unreleased set ...

Let this special multimedia event be a reveille for all the jazz heads. First, Stardust’s parking lot will transform into a sit-in movie theater for a screening of 1988 documentary Let’s Get Lost ...

In 1952, a 21-year-old trumpeter from Oklahoma named Chet Baker established himself as one the few real superstars of contemporary jazz by both playing and singing with an unmistakable lyricism and at ...

Amos Lee is set to release a tribute album inspired by jazz legend Chet Baker's signature 1954 vocal debut "Chet Baker Sings," the Philadelphia native singer-songwriter told fans on Wednesday. In ...

The San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra will present the Josh Nelson Ensemble performing “This is Jazz: A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and Chet Baker” 3 p.m. Sept. 7 at the San Bernardino Valley College ...

Chet Baker emerged in the 1950's when he came to the West Coast from Oklahoma and quickly became the prince of "cool" jazz. He died a violent drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988. Larry Mantle ...

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, ...

Chet BakerShe Was Too Good To MeCTI Records1974 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 ...