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Chet Baker, the paragon of cool jazz, is one of the enduring greats, known for both his trumpet playing and his equally fragile-sounding singing.
Born in 1929, he started to play trumpet while still in his teens as a member of the 298th Army Band. In 1952, Baker moved to Los Angeles where he participated in some historic Pacific Jazz recording sessions at a club called the Haig and with a group led by Gerry Mulligan. This group was to evolve in to the famous pianoless Gerry Mulligan Quartet. From this point on, the popularity of Chet Baker grew quite fast, quickly garnering him the number one position in popularity polls in Down Beat and Metronome.
Near the end of Baker's life (which ended in 1988), he resided and played almost exclusively in Europe, returning to the USA about once a year for a few performance dates. |
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