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Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker

Book information

Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Year
2011
ISBN
1569767572, 9781569767573
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5307986 bytes)
Pages
440\472
Time added
2014-12-18 00:36:26

Description

This first major biography of the most romanticized icon in jazz thrillingly recounts his wild ride. From his emergence in the 1950s--when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared on the West Coast to become, seemingly overnight, the prince of "cool" jazz--until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Here, drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously untapped sources, James Gavin gives a hair-raising account of the trumpeter's dark journey.

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