Netflix doesn't have the Bruce Weber directed Chet Baker doc "Let's Get Lost". It's an incredible documentary... Bruce Weber is the photographer behind all those A&F catalogs with the shirtless gay dudes, and Chet Baker is the seminal cool jazz trumpeter and singer. He has one of the most awesomely androgynous voices of all time... he makes Antony Hegerty sound like Martin Short impersonating Liza Minelli. Chet Baker's voice is like pulling a silk scarf out of a vat of honey.
Mmmmm.
Can't find anything from the doc... here's some other stuff...
Heroin fucked him up big time. I know right? A 50s-60s jazz musician using heroin? Way hard to believe! They say he got beat up trying to buy drugs in San Francisco and lost some of his teeth, and that sort of fucked up his embrochoure, and later clips of him singing are weird too. The drugs and the prison time did a number on him. Don't do drugs!
Here's a good clip of him singing:
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