[jpster]

The idea that Chet Baker and some of the others named are not “serious jazz” is too ludicrous to take.

[KolibriFly]

Jazz has always been bigger than one aesthetic or one coast, no matter how much some people want to police it

[Libidinalecon]

Unknown nobodies like Dave Brubeck.

[alonsonic]

Baker has one of the best movie adaptations, has been documented and reissued at nauseum and has worldwide acclaim and recognition. Sounds like mostly an inner-circle type of perspective.