Internationally renowned photographer/filmmaker Bruce Weber’s second feature LET’S GET LOST received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary. The
film presents the story of the late jazz great Chet Baker. Upon its release, LET’S GET LOST was a sensation at several international film festivals, including the 1989 “New Directors/New Films” series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the prestigious Critics’ Prize.

LET’S GET LOST, also the name of a long out-of-print Baker tune, aptly describes the driving force of this man and his music. His James Dean looks and cool sound set Baker apart from the other musicians of his time, but his ongoing issues with a narcotic addiction also gave a generation of jazz fans a “Doomed Youth” of their very own. Chet Baker’s life plays out like a Kerouac creation, as did his death (he fell out of an Amsterdam hotel window on Friday the 13th, 1988, at the age of 58). But out of his life came some of the most lyrical trumpet playing and jazz vocals ever heard.

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