Chet Baker was born to a farmer's daughter and a hard-drinking, weed-smoking singer and guitarist in a Western Swing band in Yale, Oklahoma in 1929. Like many Okies, the family fared badly during the ...

The Chet Baker Jazz Festival, to be held in Toronto on September 1-3, 2006, commemorates the legacy of Chet Baker and the newly formed Chet Baker Foundation. This FREE festival begins just before the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let this special multimedia event be a reveille for all the jazz heads. First, Stardust’s parking lot will transform into a sit-in movie theater for a screening of 1988 documentary Let’s Get Lost ...

Following a commemorative capsule remembering jazz pianist Bill Evans, Japanese imprint WACKO MARIA returns to celebrate another legendary jazz musician, Chet Baker, an American trumpeter and vocalist ...

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 ...

Chet Baker had $1.25 in his pocket when ,he came home from Europe last month. He scuffled around Manhattan for three weeks before he found his first night’s work; he spent the time rounding up haircut ...

The San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra will present the Josh Nelson Ensemble performing “This is Jazz: A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and Chet Baker” 3 p.m. Sept. 7 at the San Bernardino Valley College ...

Jazz legend and Oklahoman Chet Baker is being honored with two events commemorating his birthday and the 20th anniversary of his death. A Yale native, Baker pioneered the West Coast "cool" jazz in the ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.