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Chet Baker
With a razor-sharp wit, small-town girl, Natalie runs for her life, navigating a morally corrupt world that challenges her sanity and pushes her to her moral limits.
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Jeroen de Valk
Finally: the ultimate revised, updated, and expanded edition!
Chet Baker was a star at 23 years old, winning the polls of America's leading magazines. But much of his later life…
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Baker Chet
Robert Seatter
Subtle, artful, and intimate, the themes of thesepoems encompass many aspects of contemporary life, especially postwar music. With deftness and insight they move from places of stasis and memory, through…
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Susan Moody
Still recovering from violent past cases, pianist Evan Horne takes some gigs in Amsterdam, where the old jazz clubs are alive and well. There he finds himself reliving the last…
Barry Gifford
Poems from the acclaimed author of Roy’s World, Wild at Heart, and many other works
The first words in Barry Gifford’s new poetry collection say it all- Here I am…
James Gavin
James Gavin gives the reader a full account of the dark journey that was trumpet-player Chet Baker’s life, from his emergence in the 1950s on the West Coast, to his…
Includes eight transcriptions of Chet’s improvised solos for B-flat and C concert instruments. Chet’s solo were spliced out on eight audio tracks, so you can sit in and play Chet’s…
Reprint, with minor corrections. Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Artt Frank
Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame Bop drummer, composer, lyricist, and vocalist Artt Frank is one of the few authentic bop musicians on the scene today. He is best known for…