Cocaine and heroin were found in his room, and later on, an autopsy revealed the drugs were present in his body. Give or take William Burroughs, Chet Baker was at the time of his death the world’s most notorious and unrepentant heroin fiend. Directed by Robert Budreau. Er war ebenfalls ein bedeutender Pionier des West Coast Jazz-Subgenres.

With Stephen McHattie, Ted Dykstra, Sten Eirik. Baker was found dead at about 3:10 AM, on May 13th, 1988. From the early stuff in Paris (1955, Barclay Records) to all the great Pacific Jazz recordings with Russ Freeman et al that helped define the “West Coast Sound”, so beautifully photographed and chronicled by the great William Claxton. I’ve listened to Chet Baker for a long time. Chet Baker may have been abject, but he liked it that way. He had severe head wounds which were apparently sustained from having fallen from the 2nd-floor window. Filmmaker Bruce Weber was still in post production on his Chet Baker documentary Lets' Get Lost when he got the news that the jazz trumpeter had fallen to his death from a hotel window in Amsterdam. Chet Baker, a jazz trumpet player who was also a whisper-voiced, romantic singer, died Friday after falling from the second-floor window of a hotel in … Rumors that jazz legend Chet Baker was murdered started shortly after his death.
Chet Baker (born December 23, 1929, Yale, Oklahoma, USA - died May 13, 1988, Amsterdam, Netherlands) was an American jazz trumpeter and singer. Chet Baker: 1929 – 1988.

Baker recorded the live album Chet Baker in Tokyo with his quartet featuring pianist Harold Danko, bassist Hein Van de Geyn and drummer John Engels less than a year before his death, and it was released posthumously.
'Deep in a Dream: the long night of Chet Baker', by James Gavin, is published by Chatto & Windus on 30 May.

Silent Nights, a recording of Christmas music, was recorded with Christopher Mason in New Orleans in 1986 and released in 1987.

An exploration of the mysteries surrounding the death of jazz legend Chet Baker who was found dead below an Amsterdam hotel window in 1988. I’ve listened to Chet Baker for a long time. Unfotunately, his drug addiction hampered his career, including arrests for narcotics. He was found outside his Hotel Prins Hendrik, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Chet Baker: 1929 – 1988. From the early stuff in Paris (1955, Barclay Records) to all the great Pacific Jazz recordings with Russ Freeman et al that helped define the “West Coast Sound”, so beautifully photographed and chronicled by the great William Claxton.

Chet Baker singt Er wurde später 2001 mit dem Grammy Hall of Fame Award ausgezeichnet.