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Lynn Baker

Lynn Baker is an active saxophone performer and clinician, performing with his own Lynn Baker Quartet, the free-improvisation trio Rhythmic_Void, performing with and directing the Rocky Mountain Jazz Repertoire Orchestra, and programming the jazz series at the Cherokee Ranch and Castle Performing Arts Series. His clinician appearances at colleges, universities, high schools, and festivals have taken him across the North American continent and to Asia. He is a Origin Records recording artist with his debut release on that label scheduled for September 2010.

Lynn is an award-winning composer, performer, and educator winning the 1987 Westside Composer Award (Minneapolis, MN), the 1995 COVisions Award for Jazz Composition, the 1980 Ruth Loraine Close award in performance from the University of Oregon, and the 2005 Downbeat Magazine award for Outstanding Achievement in Jazz Education �” College Level and students and ensembles from Lamont are frequent Downbeat Student Music Award winners.

Lynn is also the Director of the Jazz Studies and Commercial Music Program at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver, where he directs the Lamont Jazz Orchestra, coaches combos, and teaches Jazz Improvisation and Composition class, Jazz History classes, and Jazz Techniques classes. Lynn holds degrees from the University of Oregon and Western Oregon University and has also studied at Mt Hood Community College with Larry McVeigh and at Indiana University with David Baker, Dominic Spera and Eugene Robinson. Before coming to Denver in 1993 Lynn taught at Indiana University and before that Carleton College, and universities in Oregon.

Gear

Selmer Mark VI Tenor Saxophone, ca. 1969 Meyer 7, small chamber, medium lay Yanigasawa Soprano Saxophone, ca. 1976 Roussseau 6R Rico Reeds


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Album Review

Lynn Baker Quartet: Azure Intentions

Read "Azure Intentions" reviewed by James Nadal


From the opening bass lines of “Color Line" on Azure Intention, it is evident that saxophonist Lynn Baker's Quartet comes out swinging and grooving. But there is also a captivating sense of sophistication, thoughtfully played into the selections. Baker--who doubles deftly on both soprano and tenor saxophones--composed all of Azure Intention's eight tracks, each performed with enough time and space as to allow the musicians to contribute without seeming rushed. The quartet has been gigging around Denver ...

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Performance / Tour

Michael Jefry Stevens and Malcolm Lynn Baker in an Exclusive Duo Concert

Michael Jefry Stevens and Malcolm Lynn Baker in an Exclusive Duo Concert

Source: Michael Ricci


"You were there at the beginning!" John Zorn, March 1996 Said to Lynn in a Knitting Factory greenroom

"a monster saxophonist / composer" Eric Troe KUVO Radio

About Lynn's Playing

"The consummate skill set he brings to the table is beyond impressive. He is an accomplished saxophonist and doubler equally at home in Bebop, Classical and those organic improvisational contexts which demand not only a superior technical mastery of the instrument but a total trust of the intuitive and ability to deliver a sonic integrity emanating from the WHOLE MUSICIAN, not a rehashing of vocabulary which has long been codified beyond the point where anything fresh and new can be said." Richard Boukas, Malandro Recording Artist, artist-faculty at the New School Jazz & Contemporary Music Program, New York City Former IAJE Resource Chair in Brazilian Music

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Primary Instrument

Saxophone

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

Clinic/Workshop Information

BIG BAND WORKSHOP: Over twenty-five years of college jazz ensemble directing have provided me with many educational insights that I would be happy to share with your ensemble. Whether we work on music that you are preparing, or some of my arrangements, I'll do my best to elevate the individual and ensemble in a fun and productive way. COMBO WORKSHOP: I enjoy coaching small ensembles in the nuance of jazz - whether it is ensemble playing, accompanying, or soloing

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Photos

Music

Troubled Pen

From: LectroCoustic
By Lynn Baker

Spinning

From: Azure Intention
By Lynn Baker

Color Line

From: Azure Intention
By Lynn Baker

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