DUCK BAKER
Genres: Pop, Art Song, Folk, Blues, Post Bop, Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Swing, Avant-Garde Jazz, Hard Bop, 21st Century Modern • United States

American fingerstyle guitarist, born 30 July 1949 in Washington D.C., USA. Has lived in Europe, and may currently be residing in the UK. from discogs DUCK BAKER is one of the most highly regarded fingerstyle guitarists of his generation. He is unique among jazz guitarists in that his repertoire spans the entire history of the music from ragtime through swing to modern masters like Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols to free improvisation. Baker’s devotion to American music also encompasses more traditional forms like blues, gospel, and Appalachian music and its Scots-Irish ancestry. This catholicism has been likened to Europeans who perform the classical repertoire from renaissance through to modern music. Duck was born Richard R. Baker IV in 1949 and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. He passed his teenage years playing in rock and blues bands before becoming interested in acoustic blues. Local ragtime pianist Buck Evans was a major influence on Baker’s read more...