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.”...
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...
As I was riding on our tour bus from Hollywood to 1000 Oaks I started to reflect on why I play the bass. When I 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 –...
