Loading details…
Artist
David Nathaniel Baker
12+ albums
gammarec2jumajazz and classical composer
about
American Jazz composer, multi-instrumentalist, educator, writer, clinician, pedagogue. Originally a talented trombonist, he was forced to abandon that instrument after a jaw injury left him unable to play, Following the injury, he learned to play cello. This shift to cello largely ended his career as a performer and marked a period of increased interest in composition and pedagogy. Among the first and most important people to begin to codify the then largely aural tradition of jazz he wrote several seminal books on jazz, including Jazz Improvisation. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
1
Roots II: 1. Incantation
82Roots II: 2. Dance in Congo Square
73Roots II: 3. Sorrow Song
64Roots II: 4. Boogie Woogie
55Roots II: 5. Jubilee
56Blues (Deliver My Soul)
47Someone Is Sending Me Flowers (Arr. Vignoles)
38Refractions: I. Crescent
29Sonata for Cello and Piano: I - Fast
210Ethic Variations on a Theme of Paganini
2albums
Bay Chamber Concerts
Paul Freeman Introduces ... David N. Baker
Paul Freeman Introduces ... String Concertos
Paul Freeman Introduces David Baker
▥
Spring Music
Black Composer Series, Vol. 6
Paul Freeman Introduces, Vol. 8
▥
Legacy: Violin Music of African-American Composers
▥
(null)
▥
Pavel Šporcl & Paganini (feat. violin Pavel Šporcl, piano Petr Jiříkovský)
▥
Pavel Šporcl & Paganini (feat. violin: Pavel Šporcl, piano: Petr Jiříkovský)
▥
Rorem: Spring Music / Baker: Roots II / Rochberg: Piano Trio No. 3