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  • 1955 Jazz: Chet Baker

    1955 Jazz: Chet Baker

    1955 was a year of two halves for Chet Baker. After winning his second consecutive Trumpet player of the year award in Downbeat’s Critic’s Poll, in the first half of the year he recorded for Pacific Jazz as an instrumentalist and vocalist. In the second part of 1955 he toured extensively and moved to Europe…