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 ...

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 ...

The actor found success at a young age in "Dead Poets Society," and just as with Chet Baker's career, Hawke found himself struggling to keep the momentum going. Chet Baker was a legendary jazz ...

Ezra Collective trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi is the latest artist to pay homage to jazz legend Chet Baker as part of the forthcoming Chet Baker Re:Imagined tribute album, as his version of “Speak Low” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though he tragically died 15 years ago, Chet Baker remains one of Jazz’s most beloved and misunderstood modern legends. In this new video from Rhino, Baker’s early autumn is captured in its mournful ...

You don't want to be near Ethan Hawke when he's learning to play trumpet. Filming Born to Be Blue, in which he portrays jazz icon Chet Baker, "the challenge was largely for my co-star, Carmen Ejogo, ...

You have an incredibly mysterious and enigmatic person that’s very difficult to make sense out of. Then you have to try to capture somebody who has a unique relationship to music. And then there’s the ...

Since Chet Baker's death in 1988, the trumpeter and vocalist's legacy has been widely debated within the jazz world. Called the "Prince of Cool," Baker amassed significant career accomplishments that ...