Deep in a Dream

This first major biography of the most romanticised 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.

• Ean/ISBN: 9781569767573
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