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Trumpeting a maestro in Let's Get Lost
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Derek Malcolm
5 Jun 2008
Made in 1988 and now re-released, Bruce Weber’s black-and-white tribute to the trumpeter Chet Baker, the melancholic king of West Coast jazz who fell to his death from an Amsterdam hotel window in 1988, is musically one of the most evocative jazz movies made in recent years.
It packs a punch emotionally, too, even though the moody Baker, who once looked like James Dean, does not give away many secrets. For him it’s the music that counts. But his women and agents are more forthcoming. They loved and hated him at the same time, and thought him an extremely difficult and puzzling man who just happened to blow the trumpet as well as most black practitioners.
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