David Baker

Umfangreiche Jazz-Improvisationsschule mit Übungen zu Pentatonik, Quarten, Dreiklängen, bitonalem Spiel, II-V-Progressions, u.v.m., 139 S. An excellent book designed to assist musicians with their per...

Jazz-Pädagogik-Lehrplan mit Erklärungen, Zeitablauf, Bibliographie + Discographie. This volume was the first published jazz teaching method. One of America's greatest musician-teachers, David Baker, s...

Jazz-Pädagogik-Lehrplan mit Erklärungen, Zeitablauf, Bibliographie + Discographie. This volume was the first published jazz teaching method. One of America's greatest musician-teachers, David Baker, s...

Bibliographie, Diskographie, stilist. Analyse, u. v. m. , sowie Patterns und Solotranskriptionen. The Giants of Jazz series is designed to provide a method for studying, analyzing, imitating and assim...

An initial request to write a piece for the Asyla oboe quartet (Medieval Suite) started a 'lockdown' project to complete a set of 'wind family' pieces. A bassoon quartet quickly followed (Swing, Blues...

Das Quintett besteht aus vier Sätzen, die sich zwar stark voneinander unterscheiden, sich aber in Bezug auf das verwendete Material und die Art und Weise, wie es entwickelt wird, ähneln.

An initial request to write a piece for the Asyla oboe quartet (Medieval Suite) started a 'lockdown' project to complete a set of 'wind family' pieces. A bassoon quartet quickly followed (Swing, Blues...

This is a great blues chart, and there are never enough of those! Lots of blowing space for lots of players makes this a fun-filled romp through the blues. David wrote this for his top-notch Indiana U...

The opera this overture comes from was written by Giuseppe Verdi, and was first performed in St. Petersburg in 1862. Although it was a success, and was performed around the world soon after, Verdi con...

I was honoured to be asked by the wonderful Asyla oboe quartet to write a piece for them to be performed in an upcoming series of concerts. It felt very much like writing for a consort rather than the...

This haunting little piece has a wonderful mystery inherent in the misty sound of the flute ensemble. Opening with a ghostly waltz of interwoven textures we quickly discover the individual characteris...

A few years ago I met a wonderful creative soul in Aliki Georgiou. Whilst she came to me for bassoon tuition our conversation (usually over coffee!) turned to all subjects. Her brief description of th...

In Auftrag gegeben von Helena Freire.

Well ....this clarinet family quartet is just what it says on the tin!! From a rolling bass clarinet opening we journey through a strange psychotic landscape of spaghetti western melody juxtaposed wit...

I was honoured to be asked by the wonderful Asyla oboe quartet to write a piece for them to be performed in an upcoming series of concerts. It felt very much like writing for a consort rather than the...

Eine kurze, ausdrucksstarke Pastorale in C-Dur für das sich entwickelnde Streichquartett.

I was honoured to be asked by the wonderful Asyla oboe quartet to write a piece for them to be performed in an upcoming series of concerts. It felt very much like writing for a consort rather than the...

Dieses clevere Stück ist eine Zusammenstellung einiger von Americas Lieblingsfreundinnen... Mädchen wie Buffalo Gals; I Dream of Jeannie; Lil Liza Jane; Oh, Susanna und andere, die durch die magische...

Dieses clevere Stück ist eine Zusammenstellung einiger von Americas Lieblingsfreundinnen... Mädchen wie Buffalo Gals; I Dream of Jeannie; Lil Liza Jane; Oh, Susanna und andere, die durch die magische...

This is one happy chart! It starts with the trombones laying down a nifty bass line, and then a great groove with a calypso pattern. Trumpets take the melody, and things cook on from there. Solos for...