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The Baker Full Movie In English' title='The Baker Full Movie In English' />Instruments. Trumpet, vocals, flugelhorn, piano1Years active. Associated acts. Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper, Stan Getz. Chesney Henry Chet Baker Jr. December 2. 3, 1. May 1. 3, 1. 98. 8 was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, and vocalist. Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the 1. Chet Baker Sings, It Could Happen to You. Jazz historian Dave Gelly described the promise of Bakers 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 1. BiographyeditEarly dayseditBaker was born and raised in a musical household in Yale, Oklahoma his father, Chesney Baker, Sr., was a professional guitar player, and his mother, Vera ne Moser, was a talented pianist who worked in a perfume factory. His maternal grandmother, Randi Moser, was Norwegian. Baker notes that due to the Great Depression, his father, though talented, had to quit as a musician and take a regular job. Baker began his musical career singing in a church choir. His father introduced him to brass instruments with a trombone, which was replaced with a trumpet when the trombone proved too large. His mother notes that Chet had begun to memorize tunes on the radio before he was even given an instrument and that after falling in love with the trumpet, he already developed noticeably within the first two weeks. Peers later described Baker as a natural musician, and that playing came effortlessly to him. Baker received some musical education at Glendale Junior High School, but left school at the age of 1. United States Army. He was posted to Berlin, where he joined the 2. Army band. After leaving the army in 1. El Camino College in Los Angeles. He dropped out in his second year, however, re enlisting in the army in 1. Baker became a member of the Sixth Army Band at the Presidio in San Francisco,7 and was soon spending time in San Francisco jazz clubs such as Bop City and the Black Hawk. In 1. Baker once again obtained a discharge from the army to pursue a career as a professional musician. Career breakthrougheditAmongst Bakers earliest notable professional gigs were engagements with saxophonist Vido Mussos band, and also with tenor saxophonist. Stan Getz, though he earned much more renown in 1. Charlie Parker to play with him for a series of West Coast engagements. In 1. 95. 2, Baker joined the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, which was an instant phenomenon. Several things made the MulliganBaker group special, the most prominent being the interplay between Mulligans baritone sax and Bakers trumpet. Rather than playing identical melody lines in unison like bebop giants Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie did, the two would complement each others playing with contrapuntal touches, and it often seemed as if they had telepathy in anticipating what the other was going to play next. The Quartets version of My Funny Valentine, featuring a Baker solo, was a hit, and became a tune with which Baker was intimately associated. With the Quartet, Baker was a regular performer at Los Angeles jazz clubs such as The Haig and the Tiffany Club. The Quartet found success quickly, but lasted less than a year because of Mulligans arrest and imprisonment on drug charges. Baker formed his own quartet with pianist and composer Russ Freeman in 1. Bob Whitlock, Carson Smith, Joe Mondragon, and Jimmy Bond and drummers Shelly Manne, Larry Bunker, and Bob Neel. The Chet Baker Quartet found success with their live sets, and they released a number of popular albums between 1. In 1. 95. 3 and 1. Watch Friday Online Hitfix. Baker won the Down Beat and Metronome magazines Readers Jazz Polls, beating the eras two top trumpeters, Miles Davis and Clifford Brown. Top Gear Patagonia Special Watch Series. Down Beat readers also voted Baker as the top jazz vocalist in 1. In 1. 95. 6, Pacific Jazz released Chet Baker Sings, a record that increased his profile but alienated some traditional jazz critics he would continue to sing throughout his career. Bakers chiseled features led to an approach by Hollywood studios, and he made his acting debut in the film Hells Horizon, released in the fall of 1. He declined an offer of a studio contract, preferring life on the road as a musician. Over the next few years, Baker fronted his own combos, including a 1. Francy Boland, where Baker combined playing trumpet and singing. In 1. 95. 6 Chet Baker completed an eight month tour of Europe, where he recorded Chet Baker In Europe. He became an icon of the West Coast cool school of jazz, helped by his good looks and singing talent. One of Bakers 1. The Route, with Art Pepper, helped further the West Coast jazz sound and became a staple of cool jazz. Drug addiction and declineeditBaker often said he began using heroin in 1. But in Chet Baker, his life and music by author Jeroen de Valk, Russ Freeman and others state that he was on drugs from the early 5. Watch Online Watch Daybreakers Full Movie Online Film. Freeman was Bakers pianist and musical director for a few years after Baker had left Mulligans quartet. At times, Baker pawned his instruments for money to maintain his drug habit. In the early 1. 96. Italy on drug charges he was later expelled from both West Germany and the United Kingdom for drug related offenses. Baker was eventually deported from West Germany to the United States after running afoul of the law there a second time. He settled in Milpitas in northern California, where he played in San Jose and San Francisco between short jail terms served for prescription fraud. In 1. Baker was savagely beaten allegedly while attempting to buy drugs after a gig in The Trident restaurant in Sausalito, California, sustaining severe cuts on the lips and supposedly broken front teeth, which ruined his embouchure. He stated in the film Lets Get Lost that an acquaintance attempted to rob him one night but backed off, only to return the next night with a group of several men who chased him. He entered a car and became surrounded. The Josephine Baker Story TV Movie 1. Edit. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker was born poor, but achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic and erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit, success takes Josephine to Paris where her semi nude dancing causes an international sensation. 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