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Chet Baker (I) (1929–1988)

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Chet Baker started his career in the late forties. He become famous with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet in 1952. His solo in "My funny valentine" is a classic of the west coast jazz in the fifties. When Mulligan was arrested in 1953, Chet let the group until 1955, when he went to Europe. He also sang on many records... See full bio »

Born:

Chesney Henry Baker Jr.
in Yale, Oklahoma, USA

Died:

(age 58) in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Chet Baker at a recording sesson in Los Angeles, CA, 1953.
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2012 Gent de paraula (TV series)
– Episode #2.24 (2012) (performer: "My Funny Valentine")
 
2011 Shame (performer: "Let's Get Lost")
 
2011 The Guard (performer: "Everything Happens To Me")
 
2009 Saving Grace (TV series)
– That Was No First Kiss (2009) (performer: "Time After Time" - uncredited)
 
2009 The Deaths of Chet Baker (short) ("My Funny Valentine")
 
2008 Grand Theft Auto IV (Video Game) ("Let's Get Lost")
 
2006-2008 Parashat Ha-Shavua (TV series)
– Pkudey (2008) (performer: "I Get Along Without You Very Well")
– VaYechi (2006) (writer: "Blue Gilles" / performer: "Blue Gilles")
– VaYishlach (2006) (performer: "Portrait In Black And White")
– VaYetze (2006) (writer: "Blue Gilles" / performer: "Blue Gilles")
– Toldot (2006) (performer: "Almost Blue")
 
2008/I Elegy (writer: "Early Morning Mood" / performer: "Early Morning Mood")
 
1999-2007 The Sopranos (TV series)
– Stage 5 (2007) (performer: "Summertime")
– Denial, Anger, Acceptance (1999) (performer: "Tenderly")
 
2005 The Weather Man (performer: "Sweet Lorraine" 1928)
 
2005 Embedded (video) (performer: "Alone Together")
 
2005 Crossing Jordan (TV series)
– Family Affair (2005) (performer: "My Buddy" - uncredited)
 
2003 The Company (performer: "My Funny Valentine")
 
2003 The Night We Called It a Day (performer: "When I Fall In Love")
 
2003 Not for, or Against (Quite the Contrary) (performer: "You & the Night & the Music")
 
2003 Benjamim (performer: "The Wind")
 
2003 Ramona (TV mini-series)
 
2002 Nearest to Heaven (performer: "'Round About Midnight")
 
2001 The Majestic (performer: "Over the Rainbow")
 
2001 L'uomo in più (performer: "Relaxing with Chet")
 
2001 Sidewalks of New York (performer: "Lush Life" 1938)
 
2000 Ja jestem Jurek (short) (performer: "The Wind", "What'll I Do", "She Was Too Good To Me")
 
2000 Aberdeen (performer: "I Get Along Without You Very Well")
 
1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley (performer: "MY FUNNY VALENTINE")
 
1999 Elephant Juice (performer: "Here's That Rainy Day")
 
1999 The Sixth Sense (performer: "I Fall In Love Too Easily")
 
1998 Playing by Heart (performer: "I'm Glad There Is You" 1941, "Everything Happens to Me" 1940, "I soliti ignoti" 1958, "Lucius Lu" 1952)
 
1998 B. Monkey (performer: "IMAGINATION")
 
1998 Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (documentary) (performer: "It Never Entered My Mind")
 
1998 The Cruise (documentary) (performer: "But Not For Me", "Autumn In New York")
 
1998 Dance with Me (performer: "Let's Get Lost")
 
1997 Chicago Cab (performer: "Joy to the World")
 
1997 L.A. Confidential (performer: "Look for the Silver Lining" 1920, "Makin' Whoopee" 1928, "At Last" 1941)
 
1997 This World, Then the Fireworks (performer: "THE THRILL IS GONE", "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS")
 
1996 Stealing Beauty (performer: "TENDERLY")
 
1996 Art City 1: Making It in Manhattan (documentary) (performer: "Smog")
 
1994 Bottle Rocket (short) (writer: "The Route" / performer: "The Route")
 
1992 Chain of Desire (performer: "So Hard To Know")
 
1988 Let's Get Lost (documentary) (performer: "So Hard To Know")
 
1987 Broken Noses (documentary) ("If I Should Loose You", "Everytime We Say Good-by", "Whatever Possessed Me", "Little Girl Blue", "My Foolish Heart")
 
1986 'Round Midnight (performer: "Fairweather")
 
1981 Sharky's Machine (performer: "My Funny Valentine")
 
1979 The Wanderers (performer: "You Can't Go Home Again")
 
1960 Howlers of the Dock (performer: "Arrivederci")
 
1958 Les tricheurs (performer: "Tommyhawk")
 
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2000 Alles ist ein Wunder. Ein Artistenleben (TV documentary)
 
1991 Lapsus (short)
 
1988 Chet's romance (documentary short)
 
1966 L'enfer sur la plage
 
1965 Sexus
 
1965 Man Outside
 
1963 Le concerto de la peur
 
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1984 Le jumeau (musician: trumpet solo)
 
1979 Cop or Hood (musician: trompet)
 
1964 Intrigue in Los Angeles (musician: trumpet solo)
 
1962 Smog (musician: trumpet solo)
 
1959 Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (musician: trumpet solo)
 
1955 The Fast and the Furious (musician: jazz music - as The Chet Baker Quartette)
 
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1960 Howlers of the Dock
Chet l'americano
 
1955 Hell's Horizon
Jockey
 
Show ShowSelf (5 titles)
1988 Let's Get Lost (documentary)
Himself
 
1988 Chet's romance (documentary short)
Himself
 
1986 Chet Baker: Live at Ronnie Scott's (video)
Himself
 
1964 Nudi per vivere (documentary)
 
1963 Summer Flight
Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (2 titles)
2008 Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 De wereld draait door (TV series)
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(????) CD: "Each Day Is Valentine's Day" (Capitol) See more »

Publicity Listings:

1 Biographical Movie  | 1 Print Biography  | 2 Articles  | See more »

Alternate Names:

The Chet Baker Quartette
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Trivia:

Though it was said that he couldn't read music, he was actually semi-literate; he had a rudimentary ability to read music, but because he was so good at playing by ear, he never used or improved his music-reading ability. See more »

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