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Chet Baker sings

And also plays the flugelhorn, at the link, although how he does it with missing front teeth I, an old trumpet player, will never understand. Perhaps the wider mouthpiece of the flugelhorn. This must be from after his alleged beating in San Francisco in 1966 in a drug deal gone bad, in which some of his front teeth were knocked out. Many moons ago, circa 1963, I saw him (to the extent one could see anything) in a very smokey cafe in Paris. He was a muscial legend then, and still is, almost twenty years after his death in a fall from a hotel in Amsterdam, it says here. Watch and listen, though you may have to fiddle with the thing to see/hear it all. Worth the trouble.

Via But I’m A Liberal 

Or, if you prefer, a little big band from Maynard Ferguson, also on flugelhorn, via Mystic Chords