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Chet Baker
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American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1929-1988)
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Chet Baker (1929–1988) was an American musician whose professional career spanned from 1949 to 1988. He is associated with jazz, cool jazz, trumpet, vocal jazz, and blues. His pseudonym was "Chet."
Baker’s recorded works include *Bloodline Run*, *Chet Baker Play Along*, *Playboys*, *The Pacific Jazz collection*, and *As though I had wings : the lost memoir*. He has 14 works listed in Open Library and 5 works in Crossref. His music has been streamed 53,437,487 times by 1,880,371 listeners on Last.fm.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Henry
- Family name
- Baker
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Yale
- Place of death
- Amsterdam
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Student of
- Jimmy Rowles
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Enja Records
- Image
- ChetBaker-StudioHarcourt-1955.png
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- place of burial
- Inglewood Park Cemetery
- Commons category
- Chet Baker
- topic's main category
- Category:Chet Baker
- date of birth
- 1929-12-23
- date of death
- 1988-05-13
- manner of death
- accidental death
- cause of death
- falling
- nickname
- Pop
- start of work period
- 1949-00-00
- pseudonym
- Chet
- social media followers
- 84500
- handedness
- right-handedness
- end of work period
- 1988-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Chesney Henry Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool".
Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the 1950s, particularly for albums featuring his vocals: Chet Baker Sings (1954) and It Could Happen to You (1958). Jazz historian Dave Gelly described the promise of Baker's early career as "James Dean, Sinatra, and Bix, rolled into one". His well-publicized drug habit also drove his notoriety and fame. Baker was in and out of jail frequently before enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chet Baker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.