Meet Phil Baker TIMELESS “There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparell’d in celestial...
Meet Phil Baker TIMELESS “There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparell’d in celestial...
Meet Phil Baker – “Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.” -W. H. Auden 1962 “The fire of suffering becomes the light of consciousness.”...
Meet Phil Baker – Apple isn’t knocking down my door to do my top ten list for iTunes so I’m going to subject you guys to...
by Phil Baker – Things happen when cultures collide–some good, some bad, but always interesting. The Crusades, when medieval Europe clashed with the Muslim world, led...
Guess what is the first thing I have my students do? Tune up? Stop chewing gum? No! Play the piano! There is no better way to...
I love transcribing solos! It’s like peering inside the minds of geniuses. I’ve transcribed boxes full of solos. I’ve done plenty of bass solos: Jaco, Paul...
O.K., maybe one was 66 years old, and maybe the other was 64. The men’s reason for getting them was related, but very different. One was...
Jack Bruce is one of the largest bass icons in rock. Born in Scotland in 1943, Jack played with Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, the Graham Bond...
Meet Phil Baker – A NIGHT AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD – VOL. 1 I consider Sonny Rollins’ “A Night at the Village Vanguard” to be one...
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity” -Charles Mingus Charlie Haden’s tone and minimalism have made him one of...
Meet Phil Baker – DONALD BYRD & PEPPER ADAMS MOTOR CITY SCENE Track 2.-Philson Pepper Adams – Baritone Sax Donald Byrd – Trumpet Kenny Burrell –...