Chet Baker: His Life and Music

Chapters: 1) A Routine Burial: Chet Baker's Death 2) A Cowboy from Oklahoma: Chet's Early Years 3) The Pianoless Quartet: Chet, Mulligan and the West Coast Scene 4) "A Touch of Genius": Chet and Russ Freeman 5) A Drama in Paris: The First Drug Problems 6) The Second European Tour: A Picaresque Journey through Clinics and Jails 7) Five Toughs from San Francisco: Rock Bottom 8) Two Weeks in the Half Note: The Comeback 9) The High Class Hobo: Back in Europe 10) In Search of Chet Baker: The Interviews 11) On Tour: Evert Hekkema and Wim Wigt Productions 12) In Deepest Concentration: In the Studio 13) Who Cares?: Chet Baker's Last Year and his Legacy 14) 'as though it were his last time..." A Lyric Trumpeter 15) "Quite a regular guy...": Colleagues and Friends on Chet Baker the Man 16) The Recordings of Chet Baker: A Select Discography 17) Chet Baker's Complete Works: An Overview 18) Abbreviations 19) Sources 20) Index of Names