Ife Ogunjobi Salutes Chet Baker With New Take on "Speak Low" For 'Chet Baker Re:Imagined'

Ezra Collective trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi is the latest artist to pay homage to jazz legend Chet Baker as part of the forthcoming Chet Baker Re:Imagined tribute album, as his version of "Speak Low" recently released. Initially composed by Kurt Weill -- a composer who was mostly known for his stage works, which include "Mack the Knife" -- in 1943 for a Broadway musical titled One Touch of Venus, "Speak Low" became a jazz standard in the following years. It's been covered by vocal artists like Billie...