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May 14, 1988 · 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 8, 2021 · PUBLISHED: May 18, 1988 at 1:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 8, 2021 at 11:34 p.m. Who knows why Chet Baker toppled to his death from an Amsterdam hotel window at 3 a.m. last Friday? Maybe he just...
Dec 23, 2023 · December 23, 2023. By. Charles Waring. Photo: PoPsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. When the body of Chet Baker was found, crumpled and bloodied, on an Amsterdam pavement on...
May 9, 2024 · December 23, 1929, Yale, Oklahoma, U.S. Died: May 13, 1988, Amsterdam, Netherlands (aged 58) Chet Baker (born December 23, 1929, Yale, Oklahoma, U.S.—died May 13, 1988, Amsterdam, Netherlands) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist noted for the plaintive, fragile tone of both his playing and singing.
Oct 13, 2013 · He was Chet Baker, the junkie trumpeter, a legend of sordidness and stone brilliance, who fell to his death at age 58 out the window of room 210 at the Hotel Prins Hendrik in Amsterdam, near...
Feb 22, 2008 · By John Vinocur. 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...
May 14, 1988 · May 14, 1988 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Chet Baker, who was likened physically to James Dean and musically to Miles Davis but who never approached the success of either man because of his...
