I first met the Baker family at Chet's funeral back in 1988. I took my kids out of school and went with my partner, Fonje, to the Los Angeles Cemetery. I had heard about the funeral from our local ...

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 ...

Click here to read Part One: Chet Baker: the Junkie Beat. Chet Baker finally hit New York in May of 1954, fronting his own band, for a month long engagement at Birdland. By all accounts it was a ...

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 ...

Marshall's father, jazz guitarist and Hollywood composer Jack Marshall, played on the Baker/Sheldon sessions and owned the out-of-town studio where it was recorded, but he died before a deal to ...

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 ...

A new companion to the ‘Lets Get Lost’ documentary soundtrack titled ‘Swimming by Moonlight’ offers a snapshot of Chet Baker’s remarkably strong late period renaissance. There has been no shortage of ...