David Baker, a composer who was music director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra for more than 20 years and who made a lasting mark as one of the country’s foremost jazz educators ...

At age 80, David Baker has slowed his pace but still has the jazz lean and look of musicians from an earlier era. Proving that old beboppers don’t grow stale, they just change rhythm and keep ...

Back in 1978, Luke Gillespie was in jazz musician and educator David Baker's officer at Indiana University and saw the Miles Davis LP "Kind of Blue" on the turntable. It looked worn and scratched ...

David N. Baker, distinguished professor of music and Jazz Studies Department chair emeritus at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, died Saturday at the age of 84. Baker died peacefully at ...

David Baker, jazz teacher and musician, dies at 84. Baker, whose own body of work includes more than 65 recordings, 70 books on jazz and African-American music and both Grammy and Pulitzer Prize ...

David Nathaniel Baker, Jr. was born December 21, 1931 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is Distinguished Professor of Music and Chairman of the Jazz Department at the Indiana University School of Music in ...

David Baker may not have planted the seed that resulted in the rich garden that is jazz in Bloomington today. But he has been the longtime caretaker of that seed — watering, fertilizing and ...

Many important figures in jazz studied with him, and he authored some 400 articles and 70 books, including “Jazz Styles and Analysis—Trombone,” “Jazz Improvisation” and “David Baker ...

If formal jazz education is a growing part of the music's history and evolution, then there should be a considerable chapter set aside for David Baker.

This article appears in Chapter 2 "A Star is Born" of David Baker: A Legacy in Music by Monika Herzig (Indiana Univ. Press, 2011). The George Russell Sextet Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 23, 1923, ...

David Baker is currently serving as Assistant Professor and Area Coordinator of Jazz & Commercial Music at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He received his Doctor of Arts from the University of ...