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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From bebop to blues, Chet Baker was one of the most diverse, accomplished and undersung heroes of the Jazz Age. Though his personal life may have been of questionable virtue, his trumpet and vocal ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Chet Baker portrayed by Ethan Hawke in Robert Budreau’s misty biopic Born to Be Blue is midway between beauty and ruin. Behind him are the 1950s, when his easy virtuosity and matinee-idol looks ...

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 ...

YALE, Okla. (AP) - Famed jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker was born not far from Stillwater, in Yale. He lived a hard life, one beset with drugs and music, and died much too young, at age 57. Now ...