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Acknowledging his chiseled good looks, nearby hollywood came calling and he made his acting debut in the film hells horizon, released in. As gerald heards liner notes point out, its difficult to decide whether chet baker was a trumpet player who sang or a singer who played trumpet. As on pacific jazz albums such as chet baker sings 1954, the trumpeter spends much of it could happen to you with his axe by his side, crooning. Chet baker hdmusic high definition 24 bit music download. December 23, 1929 may, 1988 was an american jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and vocalist. Chet baker sings pacific jazz pj 1222, wp 1222 chet baker sings world pacific wp 1826, st 1826 chet baker quintet. Pretty lightss finally moving sample of sonny stitts private number. Description provided by wikipedia under creative commons attribution ccbysa 4.
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