Bruce Weber applies his signature “jazz noir/California cool sensibility” to the life of Chet Baker, the great Jazz trumpeter. From his early brushes with fame as a James Dean look-alike wunderkind to later brushes with the law and struggles with substance abuse, this stunning portrait captures a man whose “frosty hipness was, in the ’50s, considered a sexy alternative to that era’s prevailing ethos of earnest, striving respectability” (The New York Times).