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Summary:

"This ever-rare "Let's Get Lost Film Journal" accompanied the documentary's original release in 1988. Bruce Weber applies the same jazz noir / California cool sensibility to the book as he did the film. Quotes from interview subjects are interspersed with Bruce's photos of Chet in the recording studio and on the road; classic William Claxton images and rare family snapshots share the page with reminisces by jazz greats. The book's content and form have the same dreamy, improvisational quality as the film, shifting back and forth from past to present, from Chet's breakout performance and his controversial "doomed youth" years, to his poignant late-career decline and struggles with addiction. Together this film and journal offer a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the decadent life of jazz music's original bad-boy, a man whose "frosty hipness was, in the '50s, considered a sexy alternative to that era's prevailing ethos of earnest, striving respectability." -Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times

Author/Creator:

Weber, Bruce, 1946- , author

Contributors:

Little Bear Production , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Photography Study Collection

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Let's get lost: starring Chet Baker: a film journal [by Weber, B.]

Subjects:

Baker, Chet — Pictorial works

Jazz musicians — United States — Pictorial works

Trumpet players — United States — Pictorial works

Baker, Chet

Jazz musicians

Trumpet players

United States

Genres:

Pictorial works

General Notes:

Purchase; 2021.
As issued, bound as stapled gather in illustrated card covers.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

ML419.B14 W43 1988

ISBNs:

0962165808
9780962165801

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008299679

OCLC Numbers:

23891317