Chet Baker
USA
Born: 23 December 1929
Died: 13 May 1988
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80
Styles: Cool, West Coast Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Vocal/Standards
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Chet Baker was a primary exponent of the West Coast school of cool jazz in the early and mid-'50s. As a trumpeter, he had a generally restrained, intimate playing style and he attracted attention beyond jazz for his photogenic looks and singing. But his career was marred by drug addiction. Baker's father, Chesney Henry Baker,Sr., was a guitarist who was forced to turn to other work during the Depression; his mother, Vera (Moser) Baker, worked in a perfumery. The family moved from Oklahoma to Glendale, CA, in 1940. As a child, Baker sang at ama...
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