Chet Baker: 'Blue Room, Holland 1979'

There were two Chet Bakers—the troubled, self-destructive narcissist who squandered much of his enormous talent and burned many of his bridges, and the sensualist who had no hang-ups exposing his soft side while improvising on trumpet and flugelhorn and singing sensitively. Both sides were astonishing, largely because they co-existed. As a 1950s Los Ang…