You’ve seen Chet Baker’s face before. It’s an undying-icon face, like Marilyn Monroe’s or James Dean’s. In fact, he was known as “the James Dean of jazz.”
He had high-end male fashion-model looks before destroying them utterly with drugs, and enough talent to be taken seriously in the jazz world. Which is saying something.
American jazz trumpeter Chet Baker performs on stage at the 11th edition of Le Printemps de Bourges rock and pop festival in the French city of Bourges on April 20, 1987. Frank Perry/AFP/Getty Images
