Kenny Baker

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Jerusalem's Ridge 00:00 Tools
Always in My Heart 00:00 Tools
Road To Columbus 00:00 Tools
Jerusalem Ridge 00:00 Tools
Goodbye Little Star 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz 00:00 Tools
Big Sandy River 00:00 Tools
Back Up and Push 00:00 Tools
Ashland Breakdown 00:00 Tools
Fiddler's Pastime 00:00 Tools
Black Mountain Rag 00:00 Tools
Wheel Hoss 00:00 Tools
Brown County Breakdown 00:00 Tools
Little Jazz 00:00 Tools
Monroe's Hornpipe 00:00 Tools
Mississippi Waltz 00:00 Tools
My Adobe Hacienda 00:00 Tools
You Walk By 00:00 Tools
Cheyenne 00:00 Tools
Stoney Lonesome 00:00 Tools
Blue Ice 00:00 Tools
Our Love Is Here To Stay 00:00 Tools
All Is Not Gold That Jitters 00:00 Tools
Springtime 00:00 Tools
Mean Dog Blues 00:00 Tools
John Barleycorn 00:00 Tools
Red Duster Rag 00:00 Tools
Sweet Bunch of Daisies 00:00 Tools
Spider Bit The Baby 00:00 Tools
Speak Low 00:00 Tools
All the Things You Are 00:00 Tools
Gold Rush 00:00 Tools
Denver Belle 00:00 Tools
I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen 00:00 Tools
You Made Me Love You 00:00 Tools
Tea For Two 00:00 Tools
Make a Little Boat 00:00 Tools
Sugar Tree Stomp 00:00 Tools
Sail Away Ladies 00:00 Tools
Dry & Dusty 00:00 Tools
Tune For Andy 00:00 Tools
Washington County 00:00 Tools
Brandywine 00:00 Tools
Ain't Misbehavin' 00:00 Tools
When You Wish Upon a Star 00:00 Tools
Cricket On The Hearth 00:00 Tools
Soft Winds 00:00 Tools
Lost Indian 00:00 Tools
Indian Killed a Woodcock 00:00 Tools
Flopareno 00:00 Tools
Bluegrass in the Backwoods 00:00 Tools
And the Angels Sing 00:00 Tools
Westwind 00:00 Tools
Riff Up Them Stairs 00:00 Tools
First Edition 00:00 Tools
High Country 00:00 Tools
Merely A Minor 00:00 Tools
A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody 00:00 Tools
Cross-Eyed Fiddler 00:00 Tools
Festival Waltz 00:00 Tools
Melancholy Mood 00:00 Tools
Roxanna Waltz 00:00 Tools
Grassy Fiddle Blues 00:00 Tools
King Porter Stomp 00:00 Tools
Wait and See 00:00 Tools
Bobby Van's Hornpipe 00:00 Tools
Alice Blue Gown 00:00 Tools
Kelly Lynn Waltz 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Love You 00:00 Tools
Bakerloo Non-Stop 00:00 Tools
Five Flat Flurry 00:00 Tools
Trunk Call 00:00 Tools
There I Go 00:00 Tools
Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland 00:00 Tools
A Little Bit of Heaven 00:00 Tools
Sequence 00:00 Tools
escape 00:00 Tools
Ragtime Annie 00:00 Tools
Frost On The Pumpkin 00:00 Tools
One O'Clock Jump 00:00 Tools
White Sails Beneath a Yellow Moon 00:00 Tools
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Lenco_180_GirlTalk 00:00 Tools
Pretty Birdie 00:00 Tools
First Day in Town 00:00 Tools
The Old Lamplighter 00:00 Tools
Daley's Reel 00:00 Tools
Smoky Mountain Rag 00:00 Tools
The Trouble with Women 00:00 Tools
Wooden Wedding 00:00 Tools
Stairway to the Stars 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams 00:00 Tools
Shelby Rock 00:00 Tools
Bean Blossom 00:00 Tools
Don't Forget to Mess Around 00:00 Tools
Grey Eagle 00:00 Tools
Jug City 00:00 Tools
What's new? 00:00 Tools
Sam's Tune 00:00 Tools
You Are Always In My Heart 00:00 Tools
Walking In My Sleep 00:00 Tools
I'm Getting Tired so I Can Sleep 00:00 Tools
No Script 00:00 Tools
Stevedore Stomp 00:00 Tools
Friday Night Waltz 00:00 Tools
Doc Harris, the Fisherman 00:00 Tools
How Am I To Know? 00:00 Tools
I Believe 00:00 Tools
Windy City 00:00 Tools
Needlenose 00:00 Tools
The Bells of St. Mary's 00:00 Tools
Starlight Waltz 00:00 Tools
Ain'tcha Comin' Out? 00:00 Tools
K and B Polka 00:00 Tools
Kiss Me Waltz 00:00 Tools
Cymbal Simon 00:00 Tools
The Moon And I (The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze) (from The Mikado, Act 2) 00:00 Tools
Up 00:00 Tools
Greenleaf Breakdown 00:00 Tools
Blue Mountain Waltz 00:00 Tools
Toyland 00:00 Tools
Indian Ridge 00:00 Tools
Opening (Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Music City Waltz 00:00 Tools
Cheyenne Breakdown 00:00 Tools
Grassy FiddleBlues 00:00 Tools
Wait And See - “The Harvey Girls” Original Cast Recording 00:00 Tools
Georgia 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Were Twins 00:00 Tools
First Lady In Town 00:00 Tools
Freda 00:00 Tools
Sally Ann 00:00 Tools
High Dad In The Morning 00:00 Tools
Lost John 00:00 Tools
Over The Waves 00:00 Tools
Echoes Of Harlem 00:00 Tools
Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey 00:00 Tools
Lisa Ann Waltz 00:00 Tools
First Day In Topwn 00:00 Tools
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Laughing Boy 00:00 Tools
Opening 00:00 Tools
Satchmo 00:00 Tools
Johnny The BlackSmith 00:00 Tools
Pass Me Not 00:00 Tools
Silver Threads Among The Gold 00:00 Tools
Hickman County Breakdown 00:00 Tools
Cross Eyed Fiddler 00:00 Tools
This & That 00:00 Tools
Sugar Blues 00:00 Tools
Cotton Baggin' 00:00 Tools
Shake or Bake 00:00 Tools
Chuck A Luck 00:00 Tools
What's New 00:00 Tools
Toyland (Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Carnival Time 00:00 Tools
Candy Gal 00:00 Tools
Bill Cheatham 00:00 Tools
Johnny June Reel 00:00 Tools
Roll on Buddy 00:00 Tools
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles 00:00 Tools
Memories of You 00:00 Tools
Tallahassee 00:00 Tools
Mas Que Nada 00:00 Tools
Chuck-a-Luck 00:00 Tools
Present 00:00 Tools
Paris Waltz 00:00 Tools
Santa Claus 00:00 Tools
Kentucky Waltz 00:00 Tools
Isn't Clapham Common 00:00 Tools
Floretta (Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Once in a While 00:00 Tools
Drop Me Off At Harlem 00:00 Tools
NEW LIFE 00:00 Tools
Cloud 00:00 Tools
Na-Na-Na 00:00 Tools
Roanoke 00:00 Tools
Westphalia Waltz 00:00 Tools
Lenco 180 GirlTalk 00:00 Tools
Louisville Breakdown 00:00 Tools
After You've Gone 00:00 Tools
Baker's Breakdown 00:00 Tools
Goodby Little Star 00:00 Tools
Melancholy Blues 00:00 Tools
McClanahan's Reel 00:00 Tools
Dusty Miller 00:00 Tools
Run Johnny Run 00:00 Tools
Midnight 00:00 Tools
Live & Let Live 00:00 Tools
One Touch Of Venus - Musical Comedy, Nash - Ausz. 00:00 Tools
Tyler's Tuition 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started 00:00 Tools
1-2-3-4 Jump 00:00 Tools
Davenport Blues 00:00 Tools
Two Dreams Met 00:00 Tools
Dead March 00:00 Tools
Johhny The Blacksmith 00:00 Tools
You Forgot to Remember 00:00 Tools
Tenderly 00:00 Tools
Land Of Lincoln 00:00 Tools
Morning Glory 00:00 Tools
Scattered 00:00 Tools
Virtuositiy 00:00 Tools
Soul Sauce 00:00 Tools
Mame 00:00 Tools
Farewell Blues 00:00 Tools
Toyland - Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Lazy Liz 00:00 Tools
Carnival Waltz 00:00 Tools
Hail to Christmas - From 'Babes in Toyland' 00:00 Tools
Pretty Birdy 00:00 Tools
Dry Bones 00:00 Tools
Ducks On The Millpond 00:00 Tools
Hollow Poplar 00:00 Tools
A Wand'ring Minstrel 1 (from The Mikado, Act 1) 00:00 Tools
Lingfield Lad 00:00 Tools
The Moon and I 00:00 Tools
Rocky Road To Dublin 00:00 Tools
I've Got A Thing About Spring 00:00 Tools
Ain't Cha Got Music? 00:00 Tools
Chicken Under The Back Porch 00:00 Tools
McHattie's Waltz 00:00 Tools
Darkness On The Delta 00:00 Tools
Faded Love 00:00 Tools
Valleri 00:00 Tools
No-One Else But You 00:00 Tools
45 00:00 Tools
Irish Black Bottom 00:00 Tools
That Lucky Old Sun 00:00 Tools
Potato Head Blues 00:00 Tools
Dry And Dusty 00:00 Tools
Cuban Pete 00:00 Tools
Arkansas Traveler 00:00 Tools
Marsha's Reel 00:00 Tools
How Am I To Know 00:00 Tools
I'm Confessin' 00:00 Tools
Evelina 00:00 Tools
White Horse Breakdown 00:00 Tools
Goodnight My Love 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got Swing 00:00 Tools
Twinkle Little Star 00:00 Tools
Little Red Shoes 00:00 Tools
Finale: He Won't Be Happy Till He Gets It/March Of The Toys (Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Cincinnati Rag 00:00 Tools
Neon 00:00 Tools
WALK ALL OVER YOU 00:00 Tools
McClanaham's Reel 00:00 Tools
Too Cool For The Blues 00:00 Tools
Wednesday Night Waltz 00:00 Tools
Sunset Cafe Stomp 00:00 Tools
Why Doubt My Love? 00:00 Tools
Indian Creek 00:00 Tools
Calm Down 00:00 Tools
Two Blind Loves 00:00 Tools
Man In The Desert 00:00 Tools
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Ball And Chain Hornpipe 00:00 Tools
Alligator Crawl 00:00 Tools
Keyhole Blues 00:00 Tools
Sing You Sinners 00:00 Tools
Allentown Polka 00:00 Tools
Nevertheless 00:00 Tools
A Beautiful Reply 00:00 Tools
Just The Other Day 00:00 Tools
Nobody's Business 00:00 Tools
Jambalaya 00:00 Tools
If I Could Be With You 00:00 Tools
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Dusty's Hornpipe 00:00 Tools
Think About Love 00:00 Tools
You're The Cream In My Coffee 00:00 Tools
Fun In February 00:00 Tools
Charmaine 00:00 Tools
I'll Be All Smiles Tonight 00:00 Tools
You Walk By 1941 00:00 Tools
Never Mind Bo-Peep, We Will Find Your Sheep 00:00 Tools
Nova Scotia Breakdown 00:00 Tools
Music Goes Round And Round 00:00 Tools
Blue Tahitian Moon 00:00 Tools
Instrumental#2 00:00 Tools
St Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Weary Blues 00:00 Tools
Chicago Breakdown 00:00 Tools
Oh, Baby 00:00 Tools
Growlin' Old Man & Growlin' Old Woman 00:00 Tools
Struttin' With Some Barbecue 00:00 Tools
Love, You Funny Thing 00:00 Tools
Song Of The Poet 00:00 Tools
Opening - Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Love, You Funny Thing 00:00 Tools
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear 00:00 Tools
Mahogany Hall Stomp 00:00 Tools
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Happy Time Waltz 00:00 Tools
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Black And Blue 00:00 Tools
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I Wonder Who 00:00 Tools
She's Funny That Way 00:00 Tools
Song Of The Poet 00:00 Tools
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Basin Street Blues 00:00 Tools
Legend Of The Whistling Brakeman 00:00 Tools
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How Long Has This Been Going On 00:00 Tools
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There are two artists named Kenny Baker. 1. Kenny Baker (born June 26, 1926 in Jenkins, KY) is an American fiddle player best known for having the longest tenure of any of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. Baker's jazz-inflected style has been a huge influence on subsequent bluegrass fiddlers. 2. Kenny Baker was born on 1 March 1921 in Withernsea,[1] East Riding of Yorkshire and died 7 December 1999. He was an accomplished jazz trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn player and composer. Baker joined a brass band and by the age of 17 and had already become a professional musician. After leaving his home town of Withernsea, in Yorkshire's East Riding, for London, he met and began performing with the already well-known jazz musician George Chisholm. While serving in the RAF during World War II, Baker was called up to do forces programmes. Baker was first heard on record in a British public jam session in 1941 and quickly established a strong reputation in London clubs. He was brass band trained and had faultless technical command. The young Baker was lead trumpeter with Ted Heath's post war orchestra with such tours de force as 'Bakerloo Non-Stop' recorded for the Decca record label in 1946 and still well remembered with a tenor saxophone solo from Johnny Gray, the piece becomes an exciting feature for both Baker and drummer Jack Parnell. In the 1950s Kenny led his own group called Baker's Dozen for which he played lead and solos and wrote the library. With this group he performed on the first regular jazz show on British radio, the BBC Light Programme series 'Let's Settle For Music'. By the 1950s he was regularly performing in studios but his numerous jazz recordings (with a quartet for Parlophone with groups of all kinds for Nixa and others) are considered world-class, a confident replay of Bunny Berigan without the errors and range to spare. So good was Baker that when the Musicians' Union were trying to justify their ban on American players working in Britain, they were able to ask, "While we have Kenny Baker who needs Louis?". (Quote from BBC News). In the 1960s and 1970s he was still on call for film and studio work. He often appeared on BBC radio's 'Sounds of Jazz' programme introduced by Peter Clayton in the 1970s with recordings made at the Maida Vale studios in London and broadcast late on Sunday evenings.[2] A famous appearance on soundtrack for Baker was a long hot trumpet solo mimed by Kay Kendall in the famous 1954 film called 'Genevieve'. He regularly emerged to play at jazz clubs often with co-trumpeter John McLevey. Baker's skills brought him wider prominence, starting in 1955 when he appeared at Blackpool with the up-and-coming comic pair of Morecambe and Wise. He also went on to share top billings with other big comedy variety acts of the day, such as Tommy Trinder, Benny Hill and Ken Dodd. Appearing on the BBC's Big Band Special in 1962, leading British jazzman John Dankworth said, "Everybody regarded him on a different level to any other trumpeter in the British Isles. He was a world class performer." (Quoted from BBC News) He formed the 'Best of British Jazz' which was a show with Don Lusher and Betty Smith. This group toured regularly in 1976 and after the death of Harry James in 1983, he was asked by the James Foundation to take over their orchestra. A small 'fighting cock' of a man (he once elbowed Benny Goodman out of the way for persistently mis-judging the tempo of a Baker feature on British concerts) he was a world-class lead trumpeter, solo performer and improviser. His career saw him play with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Junior and Tony Bennett. He also performed on James Bond soundtracks and with The Beatles. In addition to this, he was also heard on hundreds of TV programmes including The Muppet Show, through his involvement with the Jack Parnell Orchestra, which played for the now-defunct ATV company. In the 1980s he provided the music for the Beiderbecke trilogy, starring James Bolam. His famous group, 'Baker's Dozen' reformed in 1993 for four sell-out nights at Ronnie Scott's in Birmingham. He was presented with the best trumpet player title for the third time at the BT British jazz awards in 1999. He was also awarded the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 1999. He died in a hospital close to his home at Felpham, West Sussex at the age of 78 after suffering from a viral infection for more than three weeks. He is survived by his third wife Sue and daughter Julie. People have said of Baker that 'He was to jazz what the Rolling Stones are to rock music'. (Quote from BBC News). Jim Simpson, head of Big Bear Music Agency, which handled Baker's career, said, "It's not just the passing of good man and a wonderful musician, it's the end of an era musically." (Quote obtained from BBC News 9 December 1999). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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