{"id":7949,"date":"2016-11-07T20:03:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T04:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7949"},"modified":"2016-11-07T20:03:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T04:03:49","slug":"monday-recommendation-david-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/11\/monday-recommendation-david-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: David Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ftBPau\" target=\"_blank\">Basically Baker, Vol. 2<\/a> (Patois)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Basically-Baker-DT.jpg\" alt=\"basically-baker-dt\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Basically-Baker-DT.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Basically-Baker-DT-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Basically-Baker-DT-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Basically-Baker-DT-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>During the decades he spent developing Indiana University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jazz studies program, David Baker (1931-2016) became one of the most honored educators in his field. His student bands produced top-level players like trumpeter Randy Brecker and guitarist Dave Stryker, guest soloists on this album. Tenor saxophonist Rich Perry of the Maria Schneider Orchestra is another. The true stars, however, are Baker the master arranger and the members of the 22-piece band. Many of these outstanding soloists are IU alumni. In his teaching years, Baker wrote arrangements that made up <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ey4Lw1\" target=\"_blank\">Vol. 1<\/a>, recorded in 2005, and this new collection. They constitute a memorial to a great mainstream jazz arranger. Among the highlights: An expansion of his famous blues \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Honesty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that incorporates Baroque counterpoint by a brass chorale, a blazing romp through Dizzy Gillespie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bebop,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kirsten\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s First Song,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which could become a classic ballad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, Basically Baker, Vol. 2 (Patois) During the decades he spent developing Indiana University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jazz studies program, David Baker (1931-2016) became one of the most honored educators in his field. His student bands produced top-level players like trumpeter Randy Brecker and guitarist Dave Stryker, guest soloists on this album. Tenor saxophonist Rich Perry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-recommendations","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}