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    Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool...
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  • the Dream's on Me: Chet Baker Quartet Live, Vol. 1 (2000) 1953: The Chet Baker Quartet (1953) with Russ Freeman 1953: Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ...
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  • Chet Baker Sings is the debut vocal album by jazz musician Chet Baker, released in 1954 by Pacific Jazz Records. In 2001, the album received the Grammy...
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  • Chet is an album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker first released in 1959. The record is sometimes subtitled The Lyrical Trumpet of Chet Baker. Chet features...
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  • Chet Baker Sings and Plays (subtitled With Bud Shank, Russ Freeman and Strings) is an album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker recorded in 1955 for Barclay Records...
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  • Chet Baker in Tokyo is a live album by jazz trumpeter and singer Chet Baker, recorded at Showa Women's University's Hitomi Memorial Hall. Released only...
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  • Chet Baker & Crew is an album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker which was recorded in Los Angeles in 1956 and released on the Pacific Jazz label. An AllMusic...
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  • Chet Baker & Strings is an album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker recorded in late 1953 and early 1954 and released on the Columbia label. Lindsay Planer...
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    and others. His piano-less quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the best cool jazz ensembles. Mulligan was...
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  • singer, born in New York. She was the common-law wife of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. Young grew up in a show business family in Manhattan and Beverly Hills...
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  • My Funny Valentine (category Chet Baker)
    them was Chet Baker, for whom it became his signature song. In 2015 the Gerry Mulligan quartet's 1953 version of the song (featuring Chet Baker) was inducted...
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  • Chet Baker in Milan is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker which was recorded in Italy in 1959 and released on the Jazzland label. Allmusic awarded the album...
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    Brubeck, he led several groups and collaborated with Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Jim Hall, and Ed Bickert. After years of chain smoking and poor health...
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  • Chet Baker in New York is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker recorded in 1958 and released on the Riverside label early the following year. The album includes...
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  • (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You is an album by jazz trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker. It follows a formula similar to two other Baker albums...
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  • she met cool jazz trumpeter Chet Baker at the height of his fame and they began a romantic relationship. She lived with Baker and accompanied him on tour...
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  • Chet Baker in Europe (subtitled A Jazz Tour of the NATO Countries) is an album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker drawn from sessions recorded in Paris in 1955...
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  • Reunion with Chet Baker is an album recorded in 1957 by saxophonist Gerry Mulligan's Quartet with trumpeter Chet Baker which was released by World Pacific...
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  • Chet Baker Sings Again is an album by trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker which was recorded in 1985 and released on the Dutch Timeless label. "All of You"...
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  • Let's Get Lost (1988 film) (category Chet Baker)
    by Bruce Weber, about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, who died four months before the film's release. The title is derived...
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  • Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker featuring show tunes by Lerner and Loewe which was recorded in 1959...
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  • and cool jazz styles. He is best known for touring with trumpet player Chet Baker during much of his career. Frank was born in Westbrook, Maine, and was...
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  • trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Art Pepper. The album was the third collaboration between Pepper and Baker, following The Route and Chet Baker Big Band...
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    including "Let's Get Lost" (1988), a documentary about jazz musician Chet Baker, and "Chop Suey" (2001), a portrait of a wrestler. "Let's Get Lost" received...
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  • Cooking" jazz session. Numerous collaborations followed in the 1950s with Chet Baker, Shelly Manne, and Art Pepper. These collaborations included the Jazz...
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  • Born to Be Blue (film) (category Cultural depictions of Chet Baker)
    International Film Festival. The film is about American jazz musician Chet Baker, portrayed by Hawke. The film is described as "semi-factual, semi-fictional"...
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    in Let's Get Lost, Weber's documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, and had a small role in Woody Allen's film Alice. In 1989 she appeared...
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  • Smokin' with the Chet Baker Quintet is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker which was recorded in 1965 and released on the Prestige label. Scott Yanow of Allmusic...
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  • Chesney Chet Baker (1929–1988), American jazz musician and vocalist Chet Bitterman (1952–1981), American linguist and Christian missionary Chet Brooks...
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    Westerlies (2020); and also Rebellion (2016). He played the jazz musician Chet Baker in My Foolish Heart (2018), a Dutch feature film about the trumpeter's...
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