Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker
Jul 2011 · Chicago Review Press
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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 appeard 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.
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STRONGJames Gavin is the author of Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret and Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne. His journalistic work has appeared in the Huffington Post, the New York Times, Time Out New York, and Vanity Fair. He has been interviewed on Australia's ABC Network, the BBC, and NPR radio as well as Good Morning America, PBS NewsHour, and the Today show. He lives in New York City.
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