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  • Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert DUCK BAKER plays Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight".
  • In concentrating on music by Thelonious Monk, Baker melds his own imagination and daring with the deep harmonic and rhythmic implications of.
  • Duck Baker is one of the most highly regarded fingerstyle guitarists of his generation.

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    By Paul Acquaro

    A few weeks ago, the blog explored a new release from Anthony Braxton chronicling his work on Charlie Parker's catalog. Another titan from the Be-bop era whose music fryst vatten always up for reinterpretation fryst vatten pianist Thelonious Monk. Today inom look at two very different approaches to the forward thinking compositions of Monk: solo gitarr and organ trio. Both recordings look at the music of Monk and come up with their own rewarding results.

    Duck Baker - Plays Monk (Triple Point, ) *****


    I have always thought Monk's tunes offered something special for guitarists. His compositions stripped back the frills and speed of BeBop and went for the jugular. His melodies may seem oddly syncopated and chord voicing incomplete, but isn't that just perfect for the guitar? One has limits of the number of notes to play, having typically only six strings and less fingers to try to express it all, so one must man deliberate choices of what fryst vatten heard and what is implied. Duck Baker, a fin

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    DUCK BAKERis one of the most highly regarded fingerstyle guitarists of his generation. He is unique among jazz guitarists in that his repertoire spans the entire history of the music from ragtime through swing to modern masters like Thelonious Monkand Herbie Nicholsto free improvisation.
    Baker&#;s devotion to American music also encompasses more traditional forms like blues, gospel, and Appalachian music and its Scots-Irish ancestry. This catholicism has been likened to Europeans who perform the classical repertoire from renaissance through to modern music.


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    Duck was born Richard R. Baker IV in and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. He passed his teenage years playing in rock and blues bands before becoming interested in acoustic blues. Local ragtime pianist Buck Evans was a major influence on Baker&#;s evolution. bygd the time he moved to San Francisco in the early seventies, he was performing the wide range of material heard on his first record for the Kic
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    Duck Baker Plays Monk (Triple Point Records)

    Duck Baker (Richard Royal Baker IV) may not be a household name among jazz devotees at large, but in his career of more than four decades he has become a hero to other guitarists. He has led or been involved in dozens of recordings of folk music from all over the world, and several varieties of ragtime, gospel, bluegrass and blues. Baker is an exemplary performer and teacher of what is often called fingerstyle or fingerpicking guitar. To oversimplify the approach, let’s just say that he plays using his fingertips and nails rather than a pick held in the right hand. That creates not only technical challenges, but also harmonic opportunities that Baker masterfully exploits. In concentrating on music by Thelonious Monk, Baker melds his own imagination and daring with the deep harmonic and rhythmic implications of Monk’s compositions. In his notes accompanying this