David Nathaniel Baker, Jr. was born December 21, 1931 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is Distinguished Professor of Music and Chairman of the Jazz Department at the Indiana University School of Music in ...

He was 91. Jones Jr. infused his talent into films, pop music and, of course, his prized genre, jazz. And he was close friends with IU Jacobs School of Music's David Baker. Jones Jr. was a mammoth ...

2018 Grammy Nominee Sara Caswell “is a brilliant world-class violinist…one of the very best of the present generation of emerging young jazz stars” according to the late David Baker, ...

member - Jazz Heritage Orchestra; performed with The Temptations, Natalie Cole. Aretha Franklin, Clark Terry, Benny Golson, Anthony Braxton; recorded with David Baker and the 21st Century Bebop Band ...