
Deep in a Dream
The Long Night of Chet Baker
James Gavin(Author)
Chicago Review Press
Published on 1. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
440 pages
978-1-56976-757-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
648 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56976-757-3 (9781569767573)
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James Gavin is the author of Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne and Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Time Out New York, and the Huffington Post.