LOS ANGELES – Chet Baker was a man with a horn and he definitely knew how to blow it. Now his story is captured on film with Ethan Hawke starring as the legendary jazz trumpeter in IFC Films' "Born to ...

In a career that lasted an odds-defying four decades, trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker's signature sound was captured on around 20 live albums. The majority of these performances, covering the years ...

Jazz news: Jazz Legend Chet Baker's Last Studio Sessions With Norwegian Poet Jan Erik Vold Sees CD Release. Posted in “Recording” column. Published: December 10, 2010 @ All About Jazz ...

David Baker, front row with glasses, with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Guest blogger, Joann Stevens is the program manager of Jazz Appreciation Month at the American History Museum.

Playing bass might seem a thankless job in jazz, working away at the back of the stage while the frontmen get all the accolades, but Portland bassist sees it as an art. "Walking a bass line is ...

Famous for her dancing, comedy and costumes, there was never a risk of boredom when Josephine Baker took the stage. An international Jazz Age star and a World War II spy to boot?It sounds like a story ...

When Bruce Weber released Let's Get Lost in 1988, his documentary on the trumpeter Chet Baker, it joined the likes of Bertrand Tavernier's Round Midnight and Clint Eastwood's Bird in a group of ...