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 ...

Ethan Hawke is a self-professed jazz lover, but the actor has never had the chance to pay tribute to the music genre in his own films until now. For his latest project "Born to Be Blue," the actor ...

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 ...