Chet Baker the epitome of ‘Born to be Blue’ in pseudo-biopic

“Hello Dizzy. Hello Miles. There’s a little white cat on the West Coast gonna eat you up.” Legendary jazz trumpeter-vocalist Chet Baker invokes the line at two points in writer-director Robert Budreau’s provocative “Born to Be Blue,” the film-within-a-film, improvisational anti-biopic starring Ethan Hawke as the embattled musician. Baker is talking to himself, addressing his […]