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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s some good news for fans of Chet Baker. New music by the late acclaimed jazz trumpeter and singer has just been released, ...

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 ...

Baker doesn't agree with many critics that East Coast music is really more emotional than West Coast, unless you can get emotional about volume, or how many choruses somebody can play without getting ...

Of course the title of this newest entry in Verve's "For Lovers" series is redundant. What did trumpeter Chet Baker ever record that wasn't directed to lovers, particularly the jaded variety? This is ...

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 ...

Reviewed by Barry Lenny, Friday 23rd June 2023. Lost in a Dream: The Life and Songs of Chet Baker, is a tribute to the late jazz trumpeter/singer, presented by Australian trumpeter, singer, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though sometimes dismissed as a “white man’s Miles Davis,” Chet Baker was an undeniably gifted jazz stylist, whose sensitive trumpet playing and languid singing technique are nicely represented on ...