Ethan Hawke is a self-professed jazz lover, but the actor has never had the chance to pay tribute to the music genre in his own films until now. For his latest project "Born to Be Blue," the actor ...

It Could Happen To You: Side A: Do It The Hard Way; I’m Old Fashioned; You’re Driving Me Crazy; It Could Happen To You; My Heart Stood Still; Side B: The More I See You; Everything Happens To Me; ...

Let’s Get Lost, photographer Bruce Weber’s relentlessly cool ode to square-jawed trumpet player Chet Baker, is either the perfect date film or the worst imaginable. Either Baker’s slicked-back, ...

Jazz trumpeter Chet Baker's turbulent life and wretched death have provided rich material for any number of plays and movies. James O'Reilly is the latest to tackle the life of the enigmatic and ...

In Chet Baker: The Missing Years—A Memoir (BooksEndependent,LLC), drummer/composer Artt Frank delivers an in-the-room intimate, yet no-holds-barred tale of his professional and personal relationship ...

One of the biggest challenges of writing a biography is finding — or in some respects, inventing — a storyline, since life itself includes lots of interesting stuff but usually no plot. Multiply that ...

Ethan Hawke Nails Junkie Jazzman Chet Baker in Oscar-Worthy 'Born to Be Blue' (VIDEO) Ethan Hawke is working hard these days, in a wide range of roles, from his long-term collaborations with Richard ...

In Robert Budreau’s new film Born to Be Blue, Ethan Hawke brings troubled West Coast jazz titan Chet Baker to the silver screen. But rather that focusing on the legendary trumpeter’s meteoric rise in ...

Marshall's father, jazz guitarist and Hollywood composer Jack Marshall, played on the Baker/Sheldon sessions and owned the out-of-town studio where it was recorded, but he died before a deal to ...

A new companion to the ‘Lets Get Lost’ documentary soundtrack titled ‘Swimming by Moonlight’ offers a snapshot of Chet Baker’s remarkably strong late period renaissance. There has been no shortage of ...

Most biopics of musicians try to cover too much ground, telling artists’ stories from birth to death while focusing more on their weaknesses than their work. In “Born to Be Blue,” writer-director ...