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Chet Baker: As Though I Had Wings

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Chet Baker: As Though I Had Wings

The beloved yet infamous Chet Bakerâ€”trumpeter, crooner, junkie, and doomed James Dean-like icon of 1950s jazzâ€”has always projected an air of mystery (and even more so, perhaps, in the years since his death in the late 1980s). In these recently uncovered diary-entries, the mystery fades as we find that Baker's pure trumpeting, aching vocals, and now-classic renditions of many jazz standards all belie the turmoil of a wretched private life governed by addiction and abandon.

Baker dominated the jazz scene of the 1950s, working closely with the likes of Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper, and Stan Kenton. By the Sixties, however, he found himself caught in an incessantly downward spiral of heroin, cocaine, and prescription drugs. In and out of jail, in and out of relationships, criss-crossing the Atlantic, looking for gigs in the States and in Europe, searching of some sort of redemptionâ€”such is the life we encounter firsthand in these pages.

This memoir is must-reading for all students of jazz history and modern American pop culture.
Country USA
Manufacturer St. Martin's Griffin
Binding Paperback
EANs 9780312200831
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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