James Dean of Jazz: A Look Back at Chet Baker Story aired: Monday, May 26, 2003
He was the James Dean of jazz.
Chet Baker was from Oklahoma but moved to California and became the epitome of West Coast cool. Miles Davis hated him. Women loved him. It came to an end in a violent, drug-induced death in Amsterdam in 1988.
How could a life that once symbolized the American dream end so disastrously?
Guests:
James Gavin, author of a book on the fallen jazz great called "Deep in a Dream: the Long Night of Chet Baker."
