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Happy Birthday Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (born 19 August 1939, Lewisham, South London)

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2008-08-19 04:23:00 by ChrisGoesRock in ChrisGoesRock
...Baker (born 19 August 1939, Lewisham, South London) is an English drummer Baker gained fame as a member of the Graham Bond Organization (GBO) and Cream from 1966 until 1968. He later joined Cream bandmate Eric Clapton along with Ric Grech and Steve Winwood in the 1969 group Blind Faith. In the early 1970s, Baker toured and recorded with a...
 
 
 
 
 
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--=[ Anita Baker ]=--

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2008-09-05 09:53:00 by Lord Blak in Blaks Lair
...Baker - Compositions [1990 On Rapture and Giving You the Best That I Got, Anita Baker embraced a blend of technology and "real instruments" -- a definite contrast to the completely high-tech approach of so much '80s and '90s R&B. But on Compositions, producer Michael J. Powell moved even closer to a '70s-like approach to R&B -- recording...
 
 
 
 
 
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Chet Baker: Twenty Years

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2008-05-13 08:05:00 by Rifftides in Rifftides
...Baker's life of beauty and pain ended twenty years ago tonight on an Amsterdam sidewalk. He may have killed himself. That is unlikely, in my opinion. He may have fallen from his hotel window. He may have been thrown or pushed. Either way, as hard as Baker was on nearly everyone else in his life, he was even harder on himself. Far from the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Chet Baker - Deep in a Dream [2002]

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2008-01-09 19:34:00 by iorel in Hefiorels eclectic music
...Baker. The 19 tracks, which were chosen by James Gavin, author of the definitive Baker biography, are culled from Baker's 1950s recordings for a variety of labels, including Pacific Jazz, Columbia, Colpix, Jazzland, and Jazztone. The tunes include both instrumental and vocal versions of Baker's trademark song, "My Funny Valentine," as well as...
 
 
 
 
 
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Etta Baker (March 31, 1913 September 23, 2006)

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2008-06-14 14:16:26 by Joski in Merlin in Rags
...Baker played the Piedmont Blues for ninety years, starting at the age of three when she could not even hold the guitar properly. She was taught by her father, Boone Reid, who was also a long time player of the Piedmont Blues on several instruments Etta Baker was first recorded in the summer of 1956 when she and her father happened across...
 
 
 
 
 
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Correspondence: Chet Baker And You Tube

2008-02-11 09:05:00 by dramsey in Rifftides
 
...Baker fan, this very real spat seems to be the result of a big corporate entity ( You Tube ) being intimidated by the threat of a lawsuit based on copyright of material that they don't care a whit about. While the wonderful jazz on YouTube is a delight to jazz fans, it isn't even a pimple on the back side of owners of that site, and the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Etta Baker with Taj Mahal

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2008-06-14 16:16:00 by Joski in Merlin in Rags
...Baker there is no doubt about it. Her father taught her to play as a child, and through Etta we can step back in time and listen to the roots of traditional Southern Appalachian music Etta first gained a widespread following among folk enthusiasts in the 50's as a result of her songs on the " Traditional Music of the Southern Appalachians ,"...
 
 
 
 
 
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Tim Hecker Collaborates With Nadja's Aidan Baker

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2008-06-05 14:35:00 by Matthew Solarski in Pitchfork: News
...Baker decided to get together And get together they shall, first for a collaborative live performance at Montreal's Casa del Popolo on June 13 (as part of the month-long Suoni per il Popolo festival ), and then for an LP due to arrive this October on Alien8. No details there quite yet, but, um, swoon Mr. Hecker will also perform solo at the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Tim Hecker Collaborates With Nadja's Aidan Baker

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2008-06-05 14:35:00 by Matthew Solarski in Pitchfork: News
...Baker decided to get together And get together they shall, first for a collaborative live performance at Montreal's Casa del Popolo on June 13 (as part of the month-long Suoni per il Popolo festival ), and then for an LP due to arrive this October on Alien8. No details there quite yet, but, um, swoon Mr. Hecker will also perform solo at the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Tim Hecker Collaborates With Nadja's Aidan Baker

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2008-06-05 14:35:00 by Matthew Solarski in Pitchfork: News
...Baker decided to get together And get together they shall, first for a collaborative live performance at Montreal's Casa del Popolo on June 13 (as part of the month-long Suoni per il Popolo festival ), and then for an LP due to arrive this October on Alien8. No details there quite yet, but, um, swoon Mr. Hecker will also perform solo at the...