The Chet Baker is an Old Fashioned with summer vibes. It’s not the only one—the ‘Ti Punch and the Corn ‘n Oil also come to mind—but where the Chet Baker differs from those is that it’s not the ...

In 2022, acclaimed trumpeter and singer Jimmy Leach paid homage to “cool jazz” innovator — and fellow native-Oklahoman — Chet Baker. The album, titled “Jimmy Leach Sings Chet Baker,” is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amos Lee is set to release a tribute album inspired by jazz legend Chet Baker's signature 1954 vocal debut "Chet Baker Sings," the Philadelphia native singer-songwriter told fans on Wednesday. In ...

If trumpeter Chet Baker had died in 1955, in his mid-20s, he would be remembered as a golden boy cut down in his prime, a player of much promise, unfulfilled. Musically, he would be pegged as an adept ...

This poster provided by P Nation promotes Crush's special track, "Everything Happens to Me," as part of the tribute album "Chet Baker Re:imagined," commemorating the 70th anniversary of the legendary ...

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 ...