There's a scene in Born to Be Blue where Dizzy Gillespie tells Chet Baker to stick to the horn: "You know you shouldn't sing, man." But Baker, a trumpeter whose voice was untrained and curiously ...

Rock'n'roll reprobates from Keef to Kurt and beyond pale into pasty-faced insignificance when compared with the James Dean of jazz, the trumpeter Chet Baker. As a new biography published next week ...

In a cinematic landscape awash with hairsplittingly literal musical biopics, it comes as a pleasant surprise to discover that Robert Budreau’s Chet Baker film, “Born to Be Blue,” is not a Chet Baker ...

You do not generally feel like jumping up and shouting ‘Yeah!’ after a Chet Baker trumpet solo. All that tenderness, turmoil and pain has driven you too far inside. He reaches that same part of us as ...