LET’S GET LOST
Inside The Life of Jazz Icon Chet Baker
When you hear great jazz, you know it by the way it sizzles and pops within your veins, the music alternately firing up your brain or slow-jam cooling you down to your core. The iconic jazz trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker brought that magic every time he took the stage.
Let’s Get Lost, a 1988 documentary written and directed by the controversial Bruce Weber, brings us inside Chet Baker’s incomparable career. Interweaving interviews with Baker’s friends, family, collaborators, lovers, and confidantes along with stirring archival performances, Let’s Get Lost unveils a view of a life fully lived, taking us from Chet’s earliest encounters with a trumpet to his innate musical skill and eventual grappling with addiction, love, and loss. Whether showcasing Baker’s virtuoso trumpet and vocal performances or exploring the depths of his addictions and marriages, this moving documentary reveals a life committed to the music and to eternally chasing greatness no matter the cost.
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