Young Chet

New York: te Neues Publishing Company, 1998. 1st Edition, assumed . Hardcover. As New. Photographed by William Claxton. 1998 / assumed first ed., just copyright date, no later mentioned. Like New condition, pristine copy of a very unique and handsome book filled with the B & W photographs of William Claxton, who died five years ago at the age of eighty and has helped put Chet Baker on the jazz map. Claxton started going to jazz concerts at the age of two in Los Angeles and has photographed and worked with many great musicians and actors, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, and Steve McQueen and produced a book depicting jazz artists of the 1960's called "Jazz Life." This book has many fantastic photos of Chet Baker and his contemporaries and friends. Schirmer/Mosel ed., Munich,1998, pub. te Neues Co., NY "Photography is jazz for the eye." -- William Claxton Chet Baker was 22 years old when he was 'discovered' by Charlie Parker in 1951. Between 1952 and 1957 Baker (The James Dean of Jazz) captured the hearts and souls of a generation that was infaturated with 'cool,' yet deeply moved by the musician's underlying tone of seductive melancholy." The young trumpeteer is seen with and played with all the 'bigs' of the glorious years.