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41312527 | Play | Love Walked In | 00:00 Tools | |
41312529 | Play | Jerusalem's Ridge | 00:00 Tools | |
41312528 | Play | Always in My Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
41312532 | Play | Road To Columbus | 00:00 Tools | |
41312531 | Play | Jerusalem Ridge | 00:00 Tools | |
41312530 | Play | Goodbye Little Star | 00:00 Tools | |
41312535 | Play | Lonesome Moonlight Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312545 | Play | Big Sandy River | 00:00 Tools | |
41312554 | Play | Back Up and Push | 00:00 Tools | |
41312538 | Play | Ashland Breakdown | 00:00 Tools | |
41312550 | Play | Fiddler's Pastime | 00:00 Tools | |
41312537 | Play | Black Mountain Rag | 00:00 Tools | |
41312539 | Play | Wheel Hoss | 00:00 Tools | |
41312543 | Play | Brown County Breakdown | 00:00 Tools | |
41312533 | Play | Little Jazz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312541 | Play | Monroe's Hornpipe | 00:00 Tools | |
41312540 | Play | Mississippi Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312536 | Play | My Adobe Hacienda | 00:00 Tools | |
41312534 | Play | You Walk By | 00:00 Tools | |
41312546 | Play | Cheyenne | 00:00 Tools | |
41312551 | Play | Stoney Lonesome | 00:00 Tools | |
41312553 | Play | Blue Ice | 00:00 Tools | |
41312542 | Play | Our Love Is Here To Stay | 00:00 Tools | |
41312544 | Play | All Is Not Gold That Jitters | 00:00 Tools | |
41312547 | Play | Springtime | 00:00 Tools | |
41312556 | Play | Mean Dog Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
41312548 | Play | John Barleycorn | 00:00 Tools | |
41312549 | Play | Red Duster Rag | 00:00 Tools | |
41312552 | Play | Sweet Bunch of Daisies | 00:00 Tools | |
41312557 | Play | Spider Bit The Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
41312555 | Play | Speak Low | 00:00 Tools | |
41312558 | Play | All the Things You Are | 00:00 Tools | |
41312570 | Play | Gold Rush | 00:00 Tools | |
41312565 | Play | Denver Belle | 00:00 Tools | |
41312559 | Play | I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen | 00:00 Tools | |
41312561 | Play | You Made Me Love You | 00:00 Tools | |
41312560 | Play | Tea For Two | 00:00 Tools | |
41312562 | Play | Make a Little Boat | 00:00 Tools | |
41312564 | Play | Sugar Tree Stomp | 00:00 Tools | |
41312577 | Play | Sail Away Ladies | 00:00 Tools | |
41312571 | Play | Dry & Dusty | 00:00 Tools | |
41312569 | Play | Tune For Andy | 00:00 Tools | |
41312579 | Play | Washington County | 00:00 Tools | |
41312563 | Play | Brandywine | 00:00 Tools | |
41312582 | Play | Ain't Misbehavin' | 00:00 Tools | |
41312566 | Play | When You Wish Upon a Star | 00:00 Tools | |
41312586 | Play | Cricket On The Hearth | 00:00 Tools | |
41312567 | Play | Soft Winds | 00:00 Tools | |
41312607 | Play | Lost Indian | 00:00 Tools | |
41312593 | Play | Indian Killed a Woodcock | 00:00 Tools | |
41312589 | Play | Flopareno | 00:00 Tools | |
41312585 | Play | Bluegrass in the Backwoods | 00:00 Tools | |
41312574 | Play | And the Angels Sing | 00:00 Tools | |
41312587 | Play | Westwind | 00:00 Tools | |
41312568 | Play | Riff Up Them Stairs | 00:00 Tools | |
41312578 | Play | First Edition | 00:00 Tools | |
41312597 | Play | High Country | 00:00 Tools | |
41312573 | Play | Merely A Minor | 00:00 Tools | |
41312572 | Play | A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody | 00:00 Tools | |
41312603 | Play | Cross-Eyed Fiddler | 00:00 Tools | |
41312596 | Play | Festival Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312576 | Play | Melancholy Mood | 00:00 Tools | |
41312622 | Play | Roxanna Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312575 | Play | Grassy Fiddle Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
41312590 | Play | King Porter Stomp | 00:00 Tools | |
41312580 | Play | Wait and See | 00:00 Tools | |
41312581 | Play | Bobby Van's Hornpipe | 00:00 Tools | |
41312583 | Play | Alice Blue Gown | 00:00 Tools | |
41312592 | Play | Kelly Lynn Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312598 | Play | I'm Gonna Love You | 00:00 Tools | |
41312594 | Play | Bakerloo Non-Stop | 00:00 Tools | |
41312591 | Play | Five Flat Flurry | 00:00 Tools | |
41312584 | Play | Trunk Call | 00:00 Tools | |
41312600 | Play | There I Go | 00:00 Tools | |
41312602 | Play | Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland | 00:00 Tools | |
41312595 | Play | A Little Bit of Heaven | 00:00 Tools | |
41312588 | Play | Sequence | 00:00 Tools | |
41312605 | Play | escape | 00:00 Tools | |
41312619 | Play | Ragtime Annie | 00:00 Tools | |
41312641 | Play | Frost On The Pumpkin | 00:00 Tools | |
41312599 | Play | One O'Clock Jump | 00:00 Tools | |
41312601 | Play | White Sails Beneath a Yellow Moon | 00:00 Tools | |
41312608 | Play | fade away | 00:00 Tools | |
41312604 | Play | Lenco_180_GirlTalk | 00:00 Tools | |
41312606 | Play | Pretty Birdie | 00:00 Tools | |
41312617 | Play | First Day in Town | 00:00 Tools | |
41312614 | Play | The Old Lamplighter | 00:00 Tools | |
41312640 | Play | Daley's Reel | 00:00 Tools | |
41312629 | Play | Smoky Mountain Rag | 00:00 Tools | |
41312618 | Play | The Trouble with Women | 00:00 Tools | |
41312611 | Play | Wooden Wedding | 00:00 Tools | |
41312609 | Play | Stairway to the Stars | 00:00 Tools | |
41312742 | Play | Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams | 00:00 Tools | |
41312644 | Play | Shelby Rock | 00:00 Tools | |
41312610 | Play | Bean Blossom | 00:00 Tools | |
90022137 | Play | Don't Forget to Mess Around | 00:00 Tools | |
41312623 | Play | Grey Eagle | 00:00 Tools | |
41312628 | Play | Jug City | 00:00 Tools | |
41312620 | Play | What's new? | 00:00 Tools | |
41312651 | Play | Sam's Tune | 00:00 Tools | |
41312621 | Play | You Are Always In My Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
41312639 | Play | Walking In My Sleep | 00:00 Tools | |
41312612 | Play | I'm Getting Tired so I Can Sleep | 00:00 Tools | |
41312613 | Play | No Script | 00:00 Tools | |
41312616 | Play | Stevedore Stomp | 00:00 Tools | |
41312627 | Play | Friday Night Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312654 | Play | Doc Harris, the Fisherman | 00:00 Tools | |
41312615 | Play | How Am I To Know? | 00:00 Tools | |
90022138 | Play | I Believe | 00:00 Tools | |
41312636 | Play | Windy City | 00:00 Tools | |
41312630 | Play | Needlenose | 00:00 Tools | |
41312624 | Play | The Bells of St. Mary's | 00:00 Tools | |
41312631 | Play | Starlight Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312632 | Play | Ain'tcha Comin' Out? | 00:00 Tools | |
41312650 | Play | K and B Polka | 00:00 Tools | |
41312637 | Play | Kiss Me Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312633 | Play | Cymbal Simon | 00:00 Tools | |
41312625 | Play | The Moon And I (The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze) (from The Mikado, Act 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
41312626 | Play | Up | 00:00 Tools | |
41312663 | Play | Greenleaf Breakdown | 00:00 Tools | |
41312635 | Play | Blue Mountain Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312645 | Play | Toyland | 00:00 Tools | |
41312658 | Play | Indian Ridge | 00:00 Tools | |
41312634 | Play | Opening (Remastered Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
41312693 | Play | Music City Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312653 | Play | Cheyenne Breakdown | 00:00 Tools | |
41312741 | Play | Grassy FiddleBlues | 00:00 Tools | |
88358026 | Play | Wait And See - “The Harvey Girls” Original Cast Recording | 00:00 Tools | |
41312638 | Play | Georgia | 00:00 Tools | |
41312643 | Play | I Wish I Were Twins | 00:00 Tools | |
41312660 | Play | First Lady In Town | 00:00 Tools | |
41312642 | Play | Freda | 00:00 Tools | |
41312649 | Play | Sally Ann | 00:00 Tools | |
41312678 | Play | High Dad In The Morning | 00:00 Tools | |
41312701 | Play | Lost John | 00:00 Tools | |
41312683 | Play | Over The Waves | 00:00 Tools | |
41312647 | Play | Echoes Of Harlem | 00:00 Tools | |
41312648 | Play | Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey | 00:00 Tools | |
41312668 | Play | Lisa Ann Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
88358027 | Play | First Day In Topwn | 00:00 Tools | |
41312700 | Play | Endie | 00:00 Tools | |
41312702 | Play | Laughing Boy | 00:00 Tools | |
41312665 | Play | Opening | 00:00 Tools | |
41312646 | Play | Satchmo | 00:00 Tools | |
41312675 | Play | Johnny The BlackSmith | 00:00 Tools | |
41312676 | Play | Pass Me Not | 00:00 Tools | |
41312696 | Play | Silver Threads Among The Gold | 00:00 Tools | |
41312705 | Play | Hickman County Breakdown | 00:00 Tools | |
41312655 | Play | Cross Eyed Fiddler | 00:00 Tools | |
41312723 | Play | This & That | 00:00 Tools | |
41312656 | Play | Sugar Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
41312657 | Play | Cotton Baggin' | 00:00 Tools | |
41312659 | Play | Shake or Bake | 00:00 Tools | |
41312672 | Play | Chuck A Luck | 00:00 Tools | |
41312662 | Play | What's New | 00:00 Tools | |
41312667 | Play | Toyland (Remastered Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
41312652 | Play | Carnival Time | 00:00 Tools | |
41312664 | Play | Candy Gal | 00:00 Tools | |
41312752 | Play | Bill Cheatham | 00:00 Tools | |
41312703 | Play | Johnny June Reel | 00:00 Tools | |
41312808 | Play | Roll on Buddy | 00:00 Tools | |
41312661 | Play | I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles | 00:00 Tools | |
41312666 | Play | Memories of You | 00:00 Tools | |
41312781 | Play | Tallahassee | 00:00 Tools | |
41312695 | Play | Mas Que Nada | 00:00 Tools | |
41312728 | Play | Chuck-a-Luck | 00:00 Tools | |
41312679 | Play | Present | 00:00 Tools | |
41312681 | Play | Paris Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312669 | Play | Santa Claus | 00:00 Tools | |
41312687 | Play | Kentucky Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312670 | Play | Isn't Clapham Common | 00:00 Tools | |
41312689 | Play | Floretta (Remastered Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
41312688 | Play | St. Louis Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
41312671 | Play | Once in a While | 00:00 Tools | |
41312674 | Play | Drop Me Off At Harlem | 00:00 Tools | |
41312692 | Play | NEW LIFE | 00:00 Tools | |
41312724 | Play | Cloud | 00:00 Tools | |
41312718 | Play | Na-Na-Na | 00:00 Tools | |
88358031 | Play | Roanoke | 00:00 Tools | |
88358034 | Play | Westphalia Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312677 | Play | Lenco 180 GirlTalk | 00:00 Tools | |
88358028 | Play | Louisville Breakdown | 00:00 Tools | |
41312803 | Play | After You've Gone | 00:00 Tools | |
41312680 | Play | Baker's Breakdown | 00:00 Tools | |
41312698 | Play | Goodby Little Star | 00:00 Tools | |
41312726 | Play | Melancholy Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
41312682 | Play | McClanahan's Reel | 00:00 Tools | |
41312699 | Play | Dusty Miller | 00:00 Tools | |
41312684 | Play | Run Johnny Run | 00:00 Tools | |
41312685 | Play | Midnight | 00:00 Tools | |
41312750 | Play | Live & Let Live | 00:00 Tools | |
41312686 | Play | One Touch Of Venus - Musical Comedy, Nash - Ausz. | 00:00 Tools | |
41312729 | Play | Tyler's Tuition | 00:00 Tools | |
41312690 | Play | I Can't Get Started | 00:00 Tools | |
41312673 | Play | 1-2-3-4 Jump | 00:00 Tools | |
41312691 | Play | Davenport Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
41312720 | Play | Two Dreams Met | 00:00 Tools | |
41312697 | Play | Dead March | 00:00 Tools | |
88358030 | Play | Johhny The Blacksmith | 00:00 Tools | |
41312711 | Play | You Forgot to Remember | 00:00 Tools | |
41312755 | Play | Tenderly | 00:00 Tools | |
41312713 | Play | Land Of Lincoln | 00:00 Tools | |
41312704 | Play | Morning Glory | 00:00 Tools | |
90022139 | Play | Scattered | 00:00 Tools | |
88358033 | Play | Virtuositiy | 00:00 Tools | |
90022140 | Play | Soul Sauce | 00:00 Tools | |
90022141 | Play | Mame | 00:00 Tools | |
88358035 | Play | Farewell Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
90022142 | Play | Toyland - Remastered Version | 00:00 Tools | |
41312708 | Play | Lazy Liz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312709 | Play | Carnival Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312721 | Play | Hail to Christmas - From 'Babes in Toyland' | 00:00 Tools | |
41312707 | Play | Pretty Birdy | 00:00 Tools | |
88358029 | Play | Dry Bones | 00:00 Tools | |
41312710 | Play | Ducks On The Millpond | 00:00 Tools | |
41312754 | Play | Hollow Poplar | 00:00 Tools | |
41312715 | Play | A Wand'ring Minstrel 1 (from The Mikado, Act 1) | 00:00 Tools | |
41312712 | Play | Lingfield Lad | 00:00 Tools | |
41312731 | Play | The Moon and I | 00:00 Tools | |
41312734 | Play | Rocky Road To Dublin | 00:00 Tools | |
41312714 | Play | I've Got A Thing About Spring | 00:00 Tools | |
41312716 | Play | Ain't Cha Got Music? | 00:00 Tools | |
41312735 | Play | Chicken Under The Back Porch | 00:00 Tools | |
88358038 | Play | McHattie's Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
88358032 | Play | Darkness On The Delta | 00:00 Tools | |
88358041 | Play | Faded Love | 00:00 Tools | |
41312739 | Play | Valleri | 00:00 Tools | |
90022143 | Play | No-One Else But You | 00:00 Tools | |
41312745 | Play | 45 | 00:00 Tools | |
41312722 | Play | Irish Black Bottom | 00:00 Tools | |
90022144 | Play | That Lucky Old Sun | 00:00 Tools | |
41312746 | Play | Potato Head Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
41312725 | Play | Dry And Dusty | 00:00 Tools | |
88358047 | Play | Cuban Pete | 00:00 Tools | |
41312756 | Play | Arkansas Traveler | 00:00 Tools | |
41312749 | Play | Marsha's Reel | 00:00 Tools | |
41312798 | Play | How Am I To Know | 00:00 Tools | |
41312727 | Play | I'm Confessin' | 00:00 Tools | |
90022145 | Play | Evelina | 00:00 Tools | |
41312730 | Play | White Horse Breakdown | 00:00 Tools | |
41312732 | Play | Goodnight My Love | 00:00 Tools | |
41312769 | Play | It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got Swing | 00:00 Tools | |
41312733 | Play | Twinkle Little Star | 00:00 Tools | |
90022146 | Play | Little Red Shoes | 00:00 Tools | |
41312773 | Play | Finale: He Won't Be Happy Till He Gets It/March Of The Toys (Remastered Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
41312771 | Play | Cincinnati Rag | 00:00 Tools | |
41312737 | Play | Neon | 00:00 Tools | |
41312738 | Play | WALK ALL OVER YOU | 00:00 Tools | |
88358036 | Play | McClanaham's Reel | 00:00 Tools | |
90022147 | Play | Too Cool For The Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
41312778 | Play | Wednesday Night Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312740 | Play | Sunset Cafe Stomp | 00:00 Tools | |
90022148 | Play | Why Doubt My Love? | 00:00 Tools | |
41312779 | Play | Indian Creek | 00:00 Tools | |
41312787 | Play | Calm Down | 00:00 Tools | |
88358042 | Play | Two Blind Loves | 00:00 Tools | |
41312748 | Play | Man In The Desert | 00:00 Tools | |
41312792 | Play | Mixed Emotion | 00:00 Tools | |
41312751 | Play | Ball And Chain Hornpipe | 00:00 Tools | |
41312747 | Play | Alligator Crawl | 00:00 Tools | |
41312788 | Play | Keyhole Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
41312753 | Play | Sing You Sinners | 00:00 Tools | |
41312757 | Play | Allentown Polka | 00:00 Tools | |
41312758 | Play | Nevertheless | 00:00 Tools | |
41312759 | Play | A Beautiful Reply | 00:00 Tools | |
41312760 | Play | Just The Other Day | 00:00 Tools | |
90022149 | Play | Nobody's Business | 00:00 Tools | |
41312761 | Play | Jambalaya | 00:00 Tools | |
41312762 | Play | If I Could Be With You | 00:00 Tools | |
41312763 | Play | 12 | 00:00 Tools | |
41312764 | Play | Dusty's Hornpipe | 00:00 Tools | |
41312765 | Play | Think About Love | 00:00 Tools | |
41312766 | Play | You're The Cream In My Coffee | 00:00 Tools | |
41312767 | Play | Fun In February | 00:00 Tools | |
41312768 | Play | Charmaine | 00:00 Tools | |
88358052 | Play | I'll Be All Smiles Tonight | 00:00 Tools | |
41312805 | Play | You Walk By 1941 | 00:00 Tools | |
41312770 | Play | Never Mind Bo-Peep, We Will Find Your Sheep | 00:00 Tools | |
41312772 | Play | Nova Scotia Breakdown | 00:00 Tools | |
41312736 | Play | Music Goes Round And Round | 00:00 Tools | |
90022150 | Play | Blue Tahitian Moon | 00:00 Tools | |
41312777 | Play | Instrumental#2 | 00:00 Tools | |
88358037 | Play | St Louis Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
90022151 | Play | Weary Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
41312780 | Play | Chicago Breakdown | 00:00 Tools | |
90022152 | Play | Oh, Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
41312783 | Play | Growlin' Old Man & Growlin' Old Woman | 00:00 Tools | |
41312786 | Play | Struttin' With Some Barbecue | 00:00 Tools | |
90022153 | Play | Love, You Funny Thing | 00:00 Tools | |
90022154 | Play | Song Of The Poet | 00:00 Tools | |
88358045 | Play | Opening - Remastered Version | 00:00 Tools | |
90022155 | Play | Love, You Funny Thing | 00:00 Tools | |
90022156 | Play | It Came Upon A Midnight Clear | 00:00 Tools | |
88358046 | Play | Mahogany Hall Stomp | 00:00 Tools | |
90022157 | Play | Salty | 00:00 Tools | |
90022158 | Play | Happy Time Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
41312791 | Play | Beau Koo Jack | 00:00 Tools | |
41312793 | Play | Black And Blue | 00:00 Tools | |
41312794 | Play | Mahagony Hall Stomp | 00:00 Tools | |
41312795 | Play | The Last Time | 00:00 Tools | |
41312796 | Play | Two Deuces | 00:00 Tools | |
90022159 | Play | Sally Goodin' | 00:00 Tools | |
41312799 | Play | Tight Like This | 00:00 Tools | |
88358048 | Play | I Wonder Who | 00:00 Tools | |
90022160 | Play | She's Funny That Way | 00:00 Tools | |
90022161 | Play | Song Of The Poet | 00:00 Tools | |
88358051 | Play | Farmyard Swing | 00:00 Tools | |
90022162 | Play | Bucktime | 00:00 Tools | |
90022163 | Play | Floretta | 00:00 Tools | |
90022164 | Play | Lonesome Hobo | 00:00 Tools | |
41312802 | Play | Basin Street Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
90022165 | Play | Legend Of The Whistling Brakeman | 00:00 Tools | |
41312804 | Play | A And E Reel | 00:00 Tools | |
90022166 | Play | Red Sails in the Sunset | 00:00 Tools | |
90022167 | Play | Sands Of Monterey | 00:00 Tools | |
41312806 | Play | How Long Has This Been Going On | 00:00 Tools | |
88358049 | Play | Mighty River | 00:00 Tools | |
88358050 | Play | I'm Shooting High | 00:00 Tools | |
41312807 | Play | Whispering Hope | 00:00 Tools |
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.