One of the most highly regarded and acclaimed jazz documentaries of the last 20 years, Let’s Get Lost is set for a welcome cinema release next month. Directed by fashion photographer Bruce Weber, with stunning cinematography by Jeff Preiss, the 119-minute black and white film is a fascinating rise and fall story with Chet Baker (pictured) portrayed not long before he died ravaged and worn, cruising in an open top car reminiscing on his life.

It’s intercut with the often contradictory testimony of his wives and lovers and is imbued with an elegiac feel, the portrait of a man who once had it all but was by then down on his luck, hoping to rise again, yet in retrospect, not long for this world. Beautifully captured by Weber with an extra dimension so many jazz films, either documentaries or features sadly lack, when the film was first released it sparked a revival in interest in Baker who died in ignominious fashion after falling out of a hotel window in Amsterdam in 1988. The film is set for a limited cinema release from 6 June with a DVD release scheduled for July.