Deep In A Dream
The Long Night of Chet Baker
$44.18
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2003
Summary
‘The definitive biography’ Mail on Sunday
From his emergence in the 1950s - when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared in the West Coast and became, 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. At once sexy and forbidding, the so-called ‘James Dean of Jazz’ struck a note of menace in the staid fifties.
In this first major biography, the st…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099590514 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099590514 |
| Author: | James Gavin |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2003 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 131mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Much of Baker’s work was unique and remains haunting. All the more haunting after reading this book
Much of Baker’s work was unique and remains haunting. All the more haunting after reading this book * Sunday Independent *
Detailed and perceptive * Economist *
It reads like true life… Gavin is very good * Time Out *
Detailed… Critically assured and never allows the cool of the icon to occlude the venality of the individual * Scotland on Sunday *
Baker’s impact lives on even now - sexy, angelic, needy, icy and enigmatic… Gavin’s book captures Baker’s journey from the golden promise of his youth to his seedy end in Amsterdam in mesmerising detail * Irish Independent *
Deep in a Dream is a black comedy of bad behaviour, outstanding even by the standards of artists in general and jazz musicians in particular * Sunday Herald *
James Gavin
James Gavin is the author of Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret and a frequent contributor to The New York Times and other publications. He lives in New York.
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