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Composer

David N. Baker

American jazz composer, trombonist, professor of music and author (1931-2016)

90 works in the index

Birthplace
Indianapolis
Citizenship / historical state
United States
Period (estimated from birth year)
Contemporary

Biography

David N. Baker — American jazz composer, trombonist, professor of music and author (1931-2016). The recorded birthplace is Indianapolis. The biographical record lists citizenship or historical state as United States.

In this catalogue

Common listed instruments
Saxophone, Cello, violin, Double Bass, Piano
Genres represented
Classical
Works with composition dates
0 of 90

These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.

Catalogue

Works page 1 of 2

Years are composition dates where known. Instruments describe editions in our catalogue and may include arrangements. A dash means the detail is not recorded.

Works and available sheet music details
WorkYear composedCatalogue / opusKey in titleListed instrumentsGenreEditions
Transcribing Solos from Records — —— Saxophone— 5
4. Blues for a Dancer — —— percussion— 4
Musical Portrait — —— Saxophone— 4
Vierd Blues — —— Saxophone— 3
Tenor Madness — —— Saxophone— 3
4. Kaleidoscope — —— violin— 3
4. Double Dance — —— —— 3
3. Calypso — —— Piano, Flute, Double Bass, Timpani, Piccolo, percussionClassical 2
1. Incantation — —— Cello, violin— 2
3. Sorrow Song — —— Cello, violin, Double Bass— 2
2. Harlem, Saturday Night — —— violin— 2
5. 52nd Street — —— violin— 2
4. Evening Song — —— —— 2
Papillon — —— Piano— 1
Image — —— Piano— 1
1. Blues — —— Flute— 1
3. Dance — —— Flute— 1
Relationship of Chords to Scales — —— Saxophone— 2
Bibliography — —— Saxophone— 1
Biographical Sketch — —— Saxophone— 1
List of Original Compositions — —— Saxophone— 2
Discography — —— Saxophone— 1
Transcribed Solos with Analysis and Model Analysis Sheet — —— Saxophone— 2
Slow Boat to China — —— Saxophone— 1
II V7 Patterns — —— Saxophone— 2
Melodic Patterns — —— Saxophone— 1
5. Jubilee — —— Cello, violin— 1
1. Passacaglia — —— violin— 1
2. A Song — —— violin— 1
4 Jamaican Jam — —— violin— 1
6. My Lord What a Morning — —— Double Bass— 1
2. Melancholy Blues — —— percussion— 1
3. Blues Waltz — —— percussion— 0
Aulil — —— Voice— 1
Black Thursday — —— Voice— 1
Kentucky Oysters — —— Voice— 1
Le Miroir Noir — —— Voice— 1
Soleil D'Altamira — —— Voice— 1
2. To Bird — —— —— 1
1. Some Sort of Waltz — —— —— 1
2. A Song-After Paul Lawrence Dunbar — —— —— 1
Reve — —— Piano— 0
Omniscient — —— Piano— —
Chanson — —— Piano— —
Nocture — —— Piano— —
1. Jitterbug — —— Piano, Flute, Double Bass, Timpani, Piccolo, percussionClassical —
2. Slow Drag — —— Piano, Flute, Double Bass, Timpani, Piccolo, percussionClassical —
2. Loneliness — —— Flute— —

Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. This short biography is assembled from the recorded facts. Authority record: VIAF 103248740. Portrait: Photo by Tom Pich., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.