It was easy to fall in and out of love with Chet Baker. The trumpeter and vocalist ... They lighten things up with a hipster's quick take on Gershwin’s “But Not For Me.” While not an essential Baker ...

Chet Baker’s solos are full of gold—and this line from But Not For Me is one of his most iconic. We’ll break down exactly why it works, how to practice it, and how to internalize it so it ...

Since Chet Baker's death in 1988 ... Baker's performance of the Gershwins' "But Not For Me" on his first vocal LP presents the Prince of Cool at his coolest. His tenor vocal rarely wavers from ...

He haunts me. Baker was the poster child for the stereotypical addict ... Since the turn of the century, there have been three biographies of Chet Baker, not counting his "memoire" As Though I had ...

In the biography it’s not clear, however, that anybody knew exactly ... Scott corroborated every detail the caller told me about Chet’s accidental death. Chet Baker was a great trumpet and flugelhorn ...

Chet Baker was a legendary jazz trumpeter and ... The person who gave me the compliment about my singing — they're not really giving me a compliment as much as they're saying, That guy could ...

This isn't the first time you wanted to tell Chet Baker ... not really telling a story. I feel like it was my job to give you something more, to give you what my personal connection to it is. For ...

"I begged the director to give me another year," Hawke said ... a biopic that isn't strictly literal? It's not about whether the guy's named Chet Baker or Stan Getz or Art Pepper, it's about ...

"It was not typical ... and the last year of Baker's life. Does it still hold much sadness for him? "I always felt that Chet would outlive all of us. So after he died, to me, the film was like ...

Also, Chet Baker was a good friend of my mother, so he was the one who would teach me how to do the 4/4. He gave me my first drum kit when I was 14 or 15 years old. He had said to me, “You come ...