December 23 - Chet Baker (The Musical Birthday Series)

Chet Baker (23 December 1929 – 13 May 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.

But Not for Me

In the world of jazz and its nightlife

It’s easy to stray from polite life.

Perhaps if Chet Baker

Had lived as a Quaker

His life would have been an upright life.

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Alone Together

Chet Baker played trumpet and sang,

He didn’t harass or harangue,

Didn’t belt, didn’t bellow,

But moody and mellow,

Expressed  his own personal pang.

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