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Jan 18, 2012 · He fell from an upper hotel balcony in Amsterdam in 1988 and died. Questions come up immediately: Did he overdose? Was he pushed out by a dealer? was it a drug deal gone bad? Did he commit suicide? Well actually, none of the above. Chet Baker enjoyed getting high, and got used to the hassle of scoring heroin.
Aug 8, 2023 · The anonymous body lay in an Amsterdam morgue after police officers had discovered the dead man on the sidewalk outside a hotel near the city's infamous red-light district.
- Andrew Amelinckx
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 Amsterdam. He was 59 years old.
Aug 15, 2023 · How Chet Baker Died. On May 13, 1988, at age 58, Baker was found dead on the pavement outside his hotel room in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where he had been staying while touring.
Aug 8, 2021 · Who knows why Chet Baker toppled to his death from an Amsterdam hotel window at 3 a.m. last Friday? Maybe he just dozed and fell while viewing the city`s night lights.
Chesney Henry " Chet " Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool". [2]
Feb 22, 2008 · Feb. 22, 2008. AMSTERDAM — Twenty years ago this spring, when Chet Baker fell to his death from the window of an Amsterdam hotel room, an afterlife began that, in terms of the sordid and dismal,...
