Photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber’s Academy Award-nominated documentary Let’s Get Lost, focusing on elusive trumpeter
and jazz legend Chet Baker, opens for an exclusive one-week engagement at the Nuart in Los Angeles on
January 11. Using excerpts from Italian B movies, rare
performance footage and candid interviews with Baker, peer-group musicians, friends,
ex-wives and children, Weber (no, not the oh-so-inspirational Illinois basketball coach) weaves together a fascinating and evocative portrait of Baker — a naturally gifted musician whose beautiful work helped introduced jazz to a whole new generation, even as his personal demons and troubles earned him the nickname of “the James Dean of jazz.” For more information, click here, or visit Bruce Weber’s eponymous site by clicking here.