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Gavin Moolchan

RePaved

By Jalen Baker

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: Antioch (The Beginning); John Henry; Dowling/Emancipation; Freedman; City on the Water; Kashmere; Bemsha Blues; Smile.

Jalen Baker: RePaved

by Jack Bowers
October 13, 2026

RePaved, vibraphonist and composer Jalen Baker's third album as leader of his own ensemble, is an eight-part suite that depicts in musical terms the history of Houston, Texas' historic Black neighborhoods and his family's deep connection to the city's Third Ward, which spans four generations. As is usually true of thematic music, that becomes ...

Jalen Baker: RePaved

by Pierre Giroux
September 5, 2026

Occasionally, an album comes along that shakes up your thinking about what jazz can do. Jalen Baker's RePaved might be that album. On the surface, it is an eight- part suite about Houston's historic Black neighbourhoods, particularly the 3rd Ward, where Baker's family has deep roots spanning four generations. But on closer listening, it becomes more ...

Be Still

By Jalen Baker

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2023
Track listing: T'Was; Be Still; Lexi's Lullaby; Herzog; Jinrikisha; There's Beauty In Fear; The Light; Body & Soul.

Jalen Baker: Be Still

by Neil Duggan
August 14, 2023

When studying to become a jazz drummer, students are often exposed to other percussion instruments in the course of their studies and sometimes that results in finding a specialty. That was the case for Jalen Baker, who started experimenting on the vibraphone and has now gone on to be one of the most compelling players around. ...

Jalen Baker: Be Still

by Pierre Giroux
August 14, 2023

Tenor saxophonist and record executive Cory Weeds presents another album in the series of releases by up-and-coming black artists, to give them a voice which might not otherwise be heard. In this case, the artist is vibraphonist Jalen Baker; he and his frequent collaborators, pianist Paul Cornish, bassist Gabriel Godoy and drummer Gavin Moolchan, run through ...

This is Me, This is Us

By Jalen Baker

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: So Help Me God; Don’t Shoot; Interlude (Prayer for the Fallen); Healing; Patience; We Regret to Inform You; Praise; Faith; Obey Disobey; Love’s in Need of Love Today.

Jalen Baker: This is Me, This is Us

by Troy Dostert
September 27, 2021

Joining the ranks of young vibraphonists with skills galore, Jalen Baker brings a lot to the table on his debut record, This is Me, This is Us. Like Joel Ross, Sasha Berliner and Warren Wolf—the last of whom provides liner notes for the album—Baker's ambition goes beyond instrumental virtuosity. His compositional aims are just as impressive, ...