Chet Baker

R.I.P. Italian Music Innovator Amedeo Tommasi

PUBLISHED Apr 15, 2021

Amedeo Tommasi — one of Italy's most prestigious jazz players and soundtrack/library composers — has died. News broke this week that the Ch...

Chet Baker

The Legendary Riverside Albums

PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2019

Although admired throughout his career, Chet Baker was never revered in the same manner as mid-century peers like Miles, Ornette and Coltra...

Ethan Hawke

Jazz Junkie

PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2016

"The movie's not trying to be a factually accurate biopic," Ethan Hawke tells me about Born to Be Blue, an exploration of a year in West co...