A Conversation with NEA Jazz Master David Baker
Series: Art Works Podcast
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Length: 00:26:46
Born In Bloomington, Indiana in 1931, David Baker has pretty much done it all in the world of jazz: he plays the trombone and the cello, composed more than 2,000 pieces of music including symphonic works as well as jazz. He led a big band in the late 50s/early 60s and is now conductor and artistic director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. He’s Chair of the Jazz Studies Department at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, and he’s written 70 books. He’s received many honor, most particularly he was named an NEA Jazz Master in the year 2000.
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Born In Bloomington, Indiana in 1931, David Baker has pretty much done it all in the world of jazz: he plays the trombone and the cello, composed more than 2,000 pieces of music including symphonic works as well as jazz. He led a big band in the late 50s/early 60s and is now conductor and artistic director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. He’s Chair of the Jazz Studies Department at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, and he’s written 70 books. He’s received many honor, most particularly he was named an NEA Jazz Master in the year 2000.
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Transcript of conversation with David Baker
David Baker: One thing that I've found, that anywhere I go on earth, where there is music, more often than not, the music that we call jazz, the music that came out of America, is a music which is like the lingua franca of music to the rest of the world. I can't imagine a world without jazz, and the fact that it's a living, functioning, exciting organism.
Jo Reed: That was NEA Jazz Master David Baker. Welcome to Art Works, the program that goes behind the scenes with some of the nation's great artists to explore how art works. I'm your host, Josephine Reed. Born In Bloomington, Indiana in 1931, David Baker has pretty much done it all in the world of jazz: he plays the trombone and the cello, composed more than 2,000 pieces of music including symphonic works as well as jazz. He led a big band in the late 50s/early 60s and is now conductor and...
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Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| To Dizzy with Love | Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra (composed by David Baker) | Basically Baker . | GM Recordings | 2007 | 00:00 |
| Some Links for Brother Ted | Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra (composed by David Baker) | Basically Baker. | GM Recordings | 2007 | 00:00 |
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Interview conducted and edited by Jo Reed
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