BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Back in 1978, Luke Gillespie was a jazz musician and educator in David Baker's office at Indiana University and saw the Miles Davis LP Kind of Blue on the turntable. It looked worn ...

Both jazz biopics, and “Born to Be Blue,” comment on our own genre expectations and the fate of the Hollywood standby the jazz biopic. By Salamishah Tillet Ethan Hawke plays Chet Baker in this ...

Baker doesn't agree with many critics that East Coast music is really more emotional than West Coast, unless you can get emotional about volume, or how many choruses somebody can play without getting ...

Marshall's father, jazz guitarist and Hollywood composer Jack Marshall, played on the Baker/Sheldon sessions and owned the out-of-town studio where it was recorded, but he died before a deal to ...

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The concept that everyone is connected to anyone by only “six degrees,” meaning six other people, applies to Quincy Jones Jr. and Indiana University. Except, in this case, it's only one degree. Quincy ...