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Kenny Baker
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There are two artists named Kenny Baker. 1. Kenny Baker (born June 26, 1926 in Jenkins, KY) is an American fiddle player best known for having the longest tenure of any of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. Baker's jazz-inflected style has been a huge influence on subsequent bluegrass fiddlers. 2. Kenny Baker was born on 1 March 1921 in Withernsea,[1] East Riding of Yorkshire and died 7 December 1999. He was an accomplished jazz trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn player and composer. Baker joined a brass band and by the age of 17 and had already become a professional musician. After leaving his home town of Withernsea, in Yorkshire's East Riding, for London, he met and began performing with the already well-known jazz musician George Chisholm. While serving in the RAF during World War II, Baker was called up to do forces programmes. Baker was first heard on record in a British public jam session in 1941 and quickly established a strong reputation in London clubs. He was brass band trained and had faultless technical command. The young Baker was lead trumpeter with Ted Heath's post war orchestra with such tours de force as 'Bakerloo Non-Stop' recorded for the Decca record label in 1946 and still well remembered with a tenor saxophone solo from Johnny Gray, the piece becomes an exciting feature for both Baker and drummer Jack Parnell. In the 1950s Kenny led his own group called Baker's Dozen for which he played lead and solos and wrote the library. With this group he performed on the f
