Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker - Softcover

James Gavin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569767572 ISBN 13: 9781569767573

Publisher: Chicago Review Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"Definitive ... a haunting prose poem that's every bit as affecting as one of Baker's solos." --"Entertainment Weekly" - "A" rating

"Savagely honest ... impeccably researched, elegantly written." --Joel Selvin, "San Francisco Chronicle"

"Harrowing ... chilling." --Richard Sudhalter, "Baltimore Sun"

"So thorough, gripping and well-written that once the pages start to turn, you're hooked ... a journalistic gem." --Jason Koransky, "Down Beat"
"Superb ... unerring ... a stark, troubling portrait of both the artist and his times." --"Publisher's Weekly"

"Splendid, fascinatingly thorough ... a book that remains a page-turner long after it's obvious what's coming next." --K. Leander Williams, "Time Out New York"
"A landmark in entertainment biography." --Tony Gieske, "Hollywood Reporter"
"Cringingly fine ... a really scary story." --"Kirkus Reviews"

Definitive a haunting prose poem that s every bit as affecting as one of Baker s solos. "Entertainment Weekly" A rating"

Superb unerring a stark, troubling portrait of both the artist and his times. "Publisher s Weekly""

From the Publisher:

The wild ride of the most romanticized icon in jazz, thrillingly recounted in this first major biography.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1569767572
• ISBN 13: 9781569767573
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440