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      • Recognizing a kindred spirit, Josephine began calling Jean-Claude the thirteenth of her adopted Baker’s dozen—the famed Rainbow Tribe—and tapped him to arrange her international comeback tours and sing a song or two between acts.
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  2. Jan 22, 2015 · After Jean-Claude Baker, owner of Chez Josephine, was found dead last week, disbelieving friends summoned memories of his improbable life.

  3. Jean-Claude Bakers’ devotion to the memory of Josephine Baker, always tenacious, increased as he became the progenitor of her legend—opening Chez Josephine in 1986 and co-authoring the definitive and New York Times best-selling biography of his “second mother,” entitled “Josephine: The Hungry Heart” (Random House, 1994). He is ...

  4. Jan 16, 2015 · Mr. Baker created the Manhattan restaurant Chez Josephine in memory of Josephine Baker, who had befriended him as a child and whose biography he wrote.

  5. Baker ran a popular nightclub, Pimm's Cafe, in West Berlin during the 1960s, [5] and in 1986 opened the cafe Chez Josephine in New York. [6] In 1993, he co-authored, with Chris Chase, a biography of Josephine Baker, Josephine: The Hungry Heart, described as a "shocking look into the star's seriously whitewashed past". [7]

  6. Jan 16, 2015 · Jean-Claude Baker, the owner of Hell's Kitchen stalwart Chez Josephine and one of 12 adopted children of 1920s jazz star Josephine Baker, committed suicide yesterday, at the age of 71....

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  7. Jan 16, 2015 · Chez Josephine released the following statement: With great sorrow, the Chez Josephine family mourns the passing of Jean-Claude Baker.

  8. Mar 6, 2018 · Chez Josephine located at 414 West 42 nd Street in New York City is not only a fine French restaurant but also a rare world of 1920’s Parisian beauty. “I’m so proud that Jean-Claude Baker, who I met in 1985 entrusted me with his beloved dream” said Manuel Uzhca, owner and host.