This first major biography of the most romanticized icon in jazz thrillingly recounts his wild ride.
Here, drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously untapped sources, James Gavin gives a hair-raising account of the trumpeter\'s dark journey..
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.
This first major biography of the most romanticized icon in jazz thrillingly recounts his wild ride