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I have one or two Chet Baker CDs. He ended up mostly singing because I guess he probably made more money from it.
I see your two young trumpeters and raise you one pianist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FzXJVWtt3M
"He ended up mostly singing because I guess he probably made more money from it."
The following summer, already having reached a low point in his career, Baker was beaten up, probably while attempting to buy drugs,[21] after performing at The Trident in Sausalito. In the film Let's Get Lost, Baker said an acquaintance attempted to rob him, but backed off, only to return the next night with a group of men who chased him. He entered a car and was surrounded. Instead of rescuing him, the people inside the car pushed him back out onto the street, where the chase continued. He received cuts and several of his teeth were knocked out. This incident has been often misdated or otherwise said to be exaggerated partly because of his own unreliable testimony on the matter.[1][9]
Regardless, the 1966 incident did lead to his teeth eventually deteriorating. By late 1968 or early 1969, he needed dentures.[8] This ruined his embouchure, and he struggled to relearn how to play the trumpet and flugelhorn
Early on May 13, 1988, Baker was found dead on the street below his room in Hotel Prins Hendrik, Amsterdam, with serious wounds to his head, apparently having fallen from the second-story window.[33] Heroin and cocaine were found in his room and in his body. No evidence of a struggle was found, and the death was ruled an accident.[34] According to another account, he inadvertently locked himself out of his room and fell while attempting to cross from the balcony of the vacant room adjacent to his own.[35] A plaque was placed outside the hotel in his memory.[36]
Baker is buried at the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California,[37] next to his father.
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