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The Readers: Reviver
by Gina Vodegel
Multi-instrumentalist/composer Bryan Baker and his longtime compadre, saxophone specialist Aaron Henry, collaborated on Baker's second album This Morning Day (Enilkrad, 2010). Since then, both Baker and Henry have continued working together as part of a touring ensemble, Bryan Baker 4, and in the recording studio. They're an industrious duo, to say the least. As The Readers, they released the Reviver EP in late 2010, with the promise of a full-length album in spring, 2011. These four tracks can be considered ...
read moreBryan Baker: This Morning Day
by Gina Vodegel
Listening to guitarist/composer Bryan Baker's This Morning Day --the follow-up to his 2006 debut, Aphotic (Enilkrad Music)--is like going on a blind date. When focusing on the music--instead of Baker's impressive résumé--it's imperative to keep in mind that the excitement and anticipation of the unknown is half the fun. In this case, it's a promise that's not forsaken when exploring This Morning Day's nine self-penned compositions.Viewing Baker as nothing more than a young and talented guitarist, who hit ...
read moreGuitarist Bryan Baker Prepares to Release "This Morning Day"
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Michael Ricci
"A player of jaw-dropping technique and ferocious intensity with a darkly alluring musical vision, guitarist Bryan Baker is a leading light among a new breed of six-string renegades who are tearing it up with reckless abandon while pushing stylistic boundaries with impunity. His (debut record) Aphotic is the most startlingly original debut by a guitarist since Pat Metheny's Bright Size Life." -- Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times Born into an immensely creative family, with his father being a professional guitarist, his ...
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