Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker

Author/Contributor(s):	Gavin, James
Publisher:	Chicago Review Press
Date:	07/01/2011
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.