Results for "Lynn Baker"

Lynn Baker

Born: November 9, 1955

Lynn Baker is an active saxophone performer and clinician, performing with his own Lynn Baker Quartet, the free-improvisation trio Rhythmic_Void, performing with and directing the Rocky Mountain Jazz Repertoire Orchestra, and programming the jazz series at the Cherokee Ranch and Castle Performing Arts Series. His clinician appearances at colleges, universities, high schools, and festivals have taken him across the North American continent and to Asia. He is a Origin Records recording artist with his debut release on that label scheduled for September 2010. Lynn is an award-winning composer, performer, and educator winning the 1987 Westside Composer Award (Minneapolis, MN), the 1995 COVisions Award for Jazz Composition, the 1980 Ruth Loraine Close award in performance from the University of Oregon, and the 2005 Downbeat Magazine award for Outstanding Achievement in Jazz Education �” College Level and students and ensembles from Lamont are frequent Downbeat Student Music Award winners. Lynn is also the Director of the Jazz Studies and Commercial Music Program at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver, where he directs the Lamont Jazz Orchestra, coaches combos, and teaches Jazz Improvisation and Composition class, Jazz History classes, and Jazz Techniques classes

The Jim Olsen Ensemble: We See Stars

by Jack Bowers
February 28, 2014

For We See Stars, Oregon-based composer / arranger Jim Olsen has pared his usual big band down to a more manageable tentet but hasn't lessened the ebullience and ingenuity that are invariably a part of Olsen's broad palette. The album, Olsen says, evolved from a casual post-concert conversation in which he asked trumpeter Bobby Shew and ...

Troubled Pen

July 5, 2013

Album: LectroCoustic
By Lynn Baker
Label: Origin Records
Released: 0
Duration: 5:40

Lynn Baker Quartet - Color Line

Featuring the music of Lynn Baker
Duration: 8:20
October 31, 2011

Azure Intentions

By Lynn Baker

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Color Line; Lament; Into the Blues; Happy New Year; David's Tune; Azure Intention; Appalachian Shuffle; Spinning.

Spinning

September 30, 2010

Album: Azure Intention
By Lynn Baker
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 0
Duration: 5:51

Lynn Baker Quartet: Azure Intentions

by James Nadal
September 23, 2010

From the opening bass lines of “Color Line" on Azure Intention, it is evident that saxophonist Lynn Baker's Quartet comes out swinging and grooving. But there is also a captivating sense of sophistication, thoughtfully played into the selections. Baker--who doubles deftly on both soprano and tenor saxophones--composed all of Azure Intention's eight tracks, ...

Color Line

September 18, 2010

Album: Azure Intention
By Lynn Baker
Label: OA2
Released: 0
Duration: 08:16

Azure Intention

By Lynn Baker

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 0

LectroCoustic

By Lynn Baker

Label: Origin Records
Released: 0