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    "description": "Finally: the ultimate revised, updated, and expanded edition!<br />Chet Baker was a star at 23 years old, winning the polls of America\u2019s leading magazines. But much of his later life was overshadowed by his drug use and problems with the law. \u2018Chet Baker: His Life and Music\u2019 was Baker\u2019s first biography, published a year after Baker\u2019s passing in 1988. It was available in five languages.<br />Now Jeroen de Valk\u2019s thoroughly updated and expanded edition is finally here. De Valk spoke to Baker himself, his friends and colleagues, the police inspector who investigated his death, and many others. He read virtually every relevant word ever published about Chet and listened to every recording, issued or unissued. <br />The result of all this is a book which clears up quite a few misunderstandings. Chet was not the \u2018washed-up\u2019 musician we saw in the \u2018documentary\u2019 Let\u2019s Get Lost. His death was not th\u00e1t mysterious.   <br />According to De Valk, Chet was an incredible improviser, someone who could invent endless streams of melody. \u201cHe delivered these melodies with a highly individual, mellow sound. He turned his heart inside out, almost to the point of embarrassing his listeners.\u201d<br />Jazz Times: \u201cA solidly researched biography\u2026 a believable portrait of Baker\u2026 a number of enlightening interviews\u2026.\u201d  <br />Library Journal: \u201cDe Valk\u2019s sympathetic yet gritty rendering of Baker\u2019s life blends well with his account of Baker\u2019s recording career.\u201d <br />Cadence: \u201cA classic of modern jazz biography. De Valk\u2019s writing is so straightforward as to be stark, yet this is just what makes it so rich.\u201d<br />Jazzwise: \u201c\u2026 it\u2019s going to be definitive.\u201d <br /><em>Jeroen de Valk (1958) is a Dutch musician and journalist. He also authored an acclaimed biography about tenor saxophonist Ben Webster. </em>",
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