Jazz Drummer’s Memoir Captures Missing Years....

Independent  publisher, BooksEndependent, LLC today announced the release of “Chet  Baker: The Missing Years, A Memoir by Artt Frank,” available in both trade  paperback and Kindle Edition eBook. Foreword by Bobby Shew.

LOS ANGELES, CA [February 19, 2014] – Oklahoma  Jazz Hall of Fame bop drummer, composer, lyricist, and vocalist Artt  Frank, one of the few authentic bop musicians on the scene today, has written a poignant memoir of the west coast jazz scene of the  late 1960s. Known for his friendship and musical collaboration with iconic trumpeter, Chet Baker, Frank provides jazz lovers with an intimate portrait of what are considered “the missing years” in Baker’s career – the period shortly after a brutal beating left the trumpeter unable to play.


As reviewed by premiere jazz journalist and critic, Doug Ramsey, this memoir “…shows us sides of the great trumpeter that few people knew. In gripping detail, he [Frank] tells of the well-known drama in Baker’s life—the sudden fame, the struggle with drugs, the effects of a beating that almost ended his career. But Artt gives us new  insights into Chet’s warmth, his love of family, his steely determination and the early emergence of his astonishing talent… This is a book of revelations.”
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