Chet Baker
Full Name: Chesney Henry Baker, Jr.
Birth Date: December 23, 1929
Deceased Date: May 13, 1988
Artist Bio:
West Coast “cool school” jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and vocalist, played with Charlie Parker and Gerry Mulligan before forming his own quintet and recording several noteworthy albums in the 50s, in later years performed with Elvis Costello, Van Morrison and others, died after falling from a second story hotel room window in Amsterdam after a night of heroin and cocaine on 5/13/1988, age 58
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