The Fishko Files

“Young Man with a Horn”

The Mystique of the Horn Player

Friday, June 08, 2007

Today a restored version of a film made 20 years ago about the horn player and singer Chet Baker re-opens in New York. It’s combination of fact and fantasy has WNYC’s Sara Fishko trying to make sense of the horn-player’s special place in musical mythology. Here is the next Fishko Files.

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See Bruce Weber's documentary Let's Get Lost at Film Forum.

Buy some of the music by Chet Baker, Miles Davis and Bix Beiderbecke heard in this Fishko File at amazon.com.