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Chet Baker
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Delving into the many faces and phases of Chet Baker’s jazz journey means absorbing and embracing every side of his story. To many, he was the dreamy young sex symbol whose classically chiseled features adorned the cover of Chet Baker Sings, the heartthrob who was courted by Hollywood but preferred blowing vocal smoke rings across such standards as “I Get Along Without You Very Well.” For cool-jazz lovers, he was the trumpet titan who could trade fours with West Coast-style sax sensations from Stan Getz (“Half Nelson”) to Gerry Mulligan (“Jeru”). And to those who followed Baker’s hard-luck life to its later phases, his was the weathered-but-wise voice falling as gracefully as an autumn leaf across the electric piano lines of jazz-fusion giant Bob James on 1974’s melancholic-but-magical “My Future Just Passed.”