Chet Baker

Jazz Album Review: Chet Baker Trio’s “Live in Paris”

April 24, 2022
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Live in Paris: The Radio France Recordings 1983-1984 is an example of solid, appealing late Chet Baker, doing what he did best with standards and the occasional original.

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Jazz Commentary: Chet Baker — The Climax of Cool

September 29, 2018
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For most of its history, jazz has been a macho culture. Sexual ambiguity or gay-ness were subjects of derision.

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Film Review: Jazz Trumpeters Miles Davis and Chet Baker — Dueling Biopics

April 23, 2016
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The real advantage Born To Be Blue has over Miles Ahead is that it uses the music as a way to get into the soul of its title character.

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