CHET BAKER "As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir" Indigo paperback

Description: As Though I Had Wings by Chet Baker (Author), Carol Baker (Introduction). 1998 Indigo Books The late jazz legend offers his memories of the jazz scene of the 1950s and his decline from drug use in the early 1960Soft coverSoftcover book is in excellent condition; see photos1998 Indigo, 118 pages Abe Books review; The beloved yet infamous Chet Baker—trumpeter, crooner, junkie, and doomed James Dean-like icon of 1950s jazz—has always projected an air of mystery (and even more so, perhaps, in the years since his death in the late 1980s). In these recently uncovered diary-entries, the mystery fades as we find that Baker's pure trumpeting, aching vocals, and now-classic renditions of many jazz standards all belie the turmoil of a wretched private life governed by addiction and abandon.Baker dominated the jazz scene of the 1950s, working closely with the likes of Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper, and Stan Kenton. By the Sixties, however, he found himself caught in an incessantly downward spiral of heroin, cocaine, and prescription drugs. In and out of jail, in and out of relationships, criss-crossing the Atlantic, looking for gigs in the States and in Europe, searching of some sort of redemption—such is the life we encounter firsthand in these pages.This memoir is must-reading for all students of jazz history and modern American pop culture.

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