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Duck Baker
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Duck Baker is one of the most highly regarded fingerstyle guitarists of his generation. His repertoire ranges from traditional Irish music through old-time mountain music and bluegrass to blues, gospel, and ragtime to swing and modern jazz, to free improvisation, and while he is best known in the guitar world, he has made a reputation in several other camps, including the Celtic music world and the avant-garde scene. He explains this eclecticism by pointing out that folk musicians have always been more eclectic than folklorists want to admit, and noting that his approach to American music is similar to that of a classical musician to that tradition
A Herbie Nichols' Centennial - Part I
by Ludovico Granvassu
Herbie Nichols was a master of the piano which has inspired generations of musicians after his passing, despite the little commercial success that his albums obtained when first released. 2019 marks the centennial of his birth and to remedy the lack of retrospectives that his work should have, but hasn't received, this year, this ...
Thelonious Monk Revisited
by Ludovico Granvassu
Thelonious Monk once said “play what you want and let the public pick up on what you are doing even if it does take them 15, 20 years." Luckily, he lived long enough to become fully embraced and celebrated before his passing. However, it's after his death that his music has really become central to the ...
Duck Baker, un chitarrista tra passato e presente
by Mario Calvitti
Duck Baker è un chitarrista abbastanza difficile da inquadrare; mentre la tecnica che usa è rigorosamente fingerstyle, la musica che compone e interpreta spazia lungo tutta la storia del jazz, dai vecchi standard al modale, dal blues al bebop, dallo swing al free. I suoi interessi si estendono inoltre a tutta la American Music, che interpreta ...
Joy, Joy and More Joy
by Ludovico Granvassu
Last week we were not quite done with our theme revolving around Jazz & Joy and playing tunes that either inspired joy or were inspired by the experience of joy by the artists who composed them. So here is more dopamine enhancing jazz for you. Music that should turn a grey day into a sunny one. ...
Duck Baker Plays Monk
By Duck Baker
Label: Triple Point Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Blue Monk; Off Minor; Bemsha Swing; Round Midnight; Light Blue; Straight, No Chaser; Jackie-ing; In Walked Bud; Misterioso.
Vossa Jazz 2014
by Bruce Lindsay
Vossa Jazz Voss, Norway April 11-14, 2014 Vossa Jazz: a jazz festival that's about more than just jazz, an event that takes place at the same point in the calendar every year but not on the same days, a place to celebrate hundreds of years of musical tradition and to ...
Amnesia in Trastevere
By Duck Baker
Label: Ripa Records
Released: 2012
Track listing:
01. Opening the Eyes of Love; 02. Ode to Jo; 03. Night Shift; 04. Jackie-Ing (Monk); 05. Shiftless; 06. Good Intentions; 07. Amnesia in Trastevere; 08. The Bachelor's Waltz;
09. The Tao of Swing; 10. Keep the Faith.
Tutte le composizioni sono di Duck Baker, eccetto ove indicato.
Duck Baker Trio: Amnesia in Trastevere
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista Duck Baker ritorna in compagnia del suo trio per dare un seguito al brillante disco d'esordio, The Waltz Lesson. Non cambiano i compagni e la formula, basata su composizioni originali (con l'unica eccezione di un brano di Monk, da sempre tra le maggiori ispirazioni del chitarrista) interpretate con un grande senso dello swing e ...
Two Sides of Alex Ward
by John Eyles
Alex Ward originally came to prominence as an improvising clarinetist when he played at Derek Bailey's Company week in London back in 1988. But since 1997 he has also enjoyed a rising profile as a guitarist in ensembles including rock band Camp Blackfoot, the poppish instrumental group Pocket and improvising trio NEW (with Steve Noble on ...
