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"The David Baker Songbook" on Night Lights


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This past week's Night Lights show, The David Baker Songbook is now archived for online listening. It includes interviews with jazz educator/composer David Baker and bandleader Brent Wallarab (whose orchestra recorded an entire CD of Baker's music), as well as interpretations of Baker's music by George Russell, Philly Joe and Elvin Jones, the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, Jack Wilson, and Baker himself.

 

Coming up later this week: "A Cool Christmas."

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4 hours ago, Lazaro Vega said:

Jazz From Blue Lake featured the Busselli-Wallarab disc, and the George Russell records and a few selections from the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in celebration and memorial. Oh, so THAT's where the Basically Baker album Volume 1 is, on Gunther Schuller's label! 

Lazaro, yes, and infamously out of print for many years.  Indianapolis-based Owl Studios did a very small repressing of it several years ago, and now it's coming out again on trombonist Wayne Wallace's Patois Records label.  Physical copies should be going out next month or February.

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Brent is indeed a class act!  I just moderated a panel discussion yesterday in which he and a number of other musicians and scholars talked about David's life and legacy.  We had a fantastic concert of David's music in the evening as well.  Full disclosure:  I wrote the liner notes for the new CD Basically Baker 2, as well as the newly-reissued version of Basically Baker 1.

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