Chet Baker
About Chet Baker
As the poster boy for cool jazz in the '50s, trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker symbolized, at least briefly, that decade's soulful underside. But rather than ascend the throne of celebrity, he remained the outsider, the quintessential beautiful loser. For the next three decades, Baker wandered in and out of the spotlight, with moments of brilliance scattered amidst physical decline and personal travails. After getting his teeth knocked out in a drug-related scuffle, he quit playing for years. When he finally returned he was still powerful, but something of a haunted presence. An acclaimed Baker documentary, LET'S GET LOST, was released in 1987, but the next year Baker fell out of a window while under the influence of drugs and died a death as tragic as much of his genius-speckled life.
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contemporaries
- 3 Downloads Stan Getz
- 9 Downloads Charlie Parker
- 1 Download Gerry Mulligan
influences
- 11 Downloads Miles Davis
- 30 Downloads Louis Armstrong
- 3 Downloads Mel Torme
- 9 Downloads Dizzy Gillespie
followers
- 4 Downloads Wynton Marsalis
- 7 Downloads Chris Botti
- 4 Downloads Van Morrison
