Jeroen de Valk’s book, CHET BAKER: HIS LIFE AND MUSIC, is a classic of modern Jazz biography. – Cadence Magazine
Finally, the drastically updated, revised and expanded edition! Chet Baker was a star at 23 years old, winning the polls of America’s leading magazines. But much of his later life was overshadowed by his drug use and problems with the law. ‘Chet Baker / His life and music’ was Baker’s first biography, published a year after Baker’s passing in 1988. It was available in five languages.
Want to purchase this book? Please mail to info@jeroendevalk.nl
Edu Ninck Blok Quartet
‘Traces of Chesney / A tribute to Chet Baker’
The new label Silence! Records proudly presents the CD “Traces of Chesney / A tribute to Chet Baker” by the Edu Ninck Blok Quartet featuring John Engels. A tribute by musicians who knew the legendary trumpeter Chet Baker (1929–1988) musically and personally. Trumpeter Ninck Blok and drummer Engels worked with him on stage and in the recording studio.
Chet’s biographer Jeroen de Valk makes a rare contribution as a bassist, his earlier profession. The album was well received both at home and abroad.
Please contact Jeroen at jeroen.de.valk@ziggo.nl
