Jazz Articles about Bryan Baker

About Bryan Baker

Album Review

Multi-instrumentalist/composer Bryan Baker and his longtime compadre, saxophone specialist Aaron Henry, collaborated on Baker's second album This Morning Day (Enilkrad, 2010). Since then, both Baker and Henry have continued working together as part of a touring ensemble, Bryan Baker 4, and in the recording studio. They're an industrious duo, to say the least. As The Readers, they released the Reviver EP in late 2010, with the promise of a full-length album in spring, 2011. These four tracks can be considered ...

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Album Review

Bryan Baker: This Morning Day

Read "This Morning Day" reviewed by Gina Vodegel

by Gina Vodegel
March 19, 2010

Listening to guitarist/composer Bryan Baker's This Morning Day --the follow-up to his 2006 debut, Aphotic (Enilkrad Music)--is like going on a blind date. When focusing on the music--instead of Baker's impressive résumé--it's imperative to keep in mind that the excitement and anticipation of the unknown is half the fun. In this case, it's a promise that's not forsaken when exploring This Morning Day's nine self-penned compositions.Viewing Baker as nothing more than a young and talented guitarist, who hit ...