The entries in trumpeter/singer Chet Baker’s memoir are not dated, but in J. De Valk’s biography, Chet Baker: His Life and Music, the author states that Baker probably wrote between 1969 and 1975 (according to Baker, 1974) when he was not playing because of problems with his teeth. Oddly, Baker’s memories of his early life are more detailed than events that occurred later during his period of heavy drug usage. His writing is clear, bearing out his early interest in English. He doesn’t mince words about his drug dependency, his jail time or his dalliances, but his accounts are strangely lacking in emotion. Though a slim book, which concludes with a postscript some 25 years before his death, it adds to the mystique of this introverted musician whose compellingly sensual trumpet and strangely androgynous vocals captured jazz audiences in the ‘50s.