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Chet Baker
Chet Baker was a jazz trumpeter and singer who gained prominence in the 1950s and 1960s. He was known for his cool and lyrical style of playing and his signature soft and mellow singing voice. However, his life was marked by drug addiction and personal troubles, and he died tragically in 1988 after falling from a hotel window in Amsterdam.
Titles credited to Chet Baker
Let's Get Lost
Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see the young Baker, he of the beautiful face, in Califo...
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