E-book
Deep in a dream the long night of Chet Baker
Record details
- ISBN: 1569769028 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781569769027 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 156976901X (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781569769010 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (430 p.)
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electronic resource - Edition: Unabridged pbk. ed.
- Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. Reprint, with minor corrections. Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references, discography and index. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Access restricted by subscription. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Baker, Chet Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Brass Jazz musicians |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Biography. |
Electronic resources
- Independent Publishing GroupThis 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.
- Independent Publishing Group
From his emergence in the 1950s as an uncannily beautiful young Oklahoman who became the prince of ?coolâ jazz seemingly overnight to his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously untapped sources, this first major biography of one of the most romanticized icons in jazz gives a thrilling account of the trumpeterâs dark journey. Author James Gavin delves deeply into Bakerâs tormented childhood, the origins of his melancholic trumpet playing, and even reveals the long-unsolved riddle of Bakerâs demise. Bakerâs otherworldly personal aura struck a note of menace and mystery that catapulted him to fame in the staid 1950s but as time wore on, his romance with drugs became highly publicized. Gavin narrates the harrowing spiral of dependency down which Baker tumbled and illustrates how those who dared to get close were dragged down with him. This is the portrait of a musician whose singular artistry and mystique has never lost the power to enchant and seduce.
