“From the damaged lips of this broken, defeated, skinny pathetic man emerges, night after night, a music sublime, luminous, and lyrical. From his voyage to the ends of hell, Chet Baker has resurrected, in the day, the blue diamonds of jazz. . . .”

—French writer Philippe Adler, on the later years of trumpeter Chet Baker; quoted in Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, by James Gavin, 2002.