An early version of Chet Baker singing "Little Girl Blue" was playing in the background while I worked on this photo. The link above is to a later version. I didn't really know about Chet until relatively late in life and I saw, "Let's Get Lost". The camera loved Chet Baker. It seems a number of women did too. Chet loved them back. But he also loved the trumpet and heroin. I've heard stories about Chet's visit to Vancouver that involved a ping pong table, a fall and a trip to the hospital. I heard the same story from two sources. First, a famous Vancouver blues musician, who was at the scene. The second was a clerk in a mystery book shop who heard it from a friend who was there.
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Is the movie good? I should see it.
Yes, it's very good, especially if you don't know much about him. I was talking about him in the bookstore because I found a book called "Looking For Chet Baker" by a jazz drummer out of San Francisco. It's a mystery around the death of Chet in Amsterdam shortly after the movie was finished.
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