Here's some real fresh stuff from Bryan Baker who we originally featured here a couple years ago.
If you dig serious East Coast Fusion, i.e. Mike Stern, Krantz, Ribot, Zorn, Oz Noy, etc., Baker oughta fill your chops of doom prescription. The Berklee alum has toured with Steps Ahead, and created various other projects-- some of which even aren't jazz or fusion at all-- so he's also very eclectic. Probably brews beer like Holdsworth as well. Ya never know...
In the above video, be sure to stick around for the second guitar solo at 5:15 following the sax solo. If you prescribe to "if you can sing it, you can play it", watch how he's singing along with his soloing like some of the legendary bebop piano cats. He knows what he's doing!
Miles Davis would have loved Bryan Baker! Woulda called him a Mother F#*@a! too-- the highest compliment an artist could receive from Mr. Davis. Seriously, in the context of having badass chops that was the ultimate honor. You wouldn't call Bryan Baker that though-- you would tell him that Miles would call him that. Etiquette & protocol is essential!
CLICK HERE for the music video of his tune "TEETH" in which one Youtube comment thread chimes in:
"Beastie Boys meets Ornette Coleman after he went drinking with Bela Bartok..."
Reminds me of some of the stuff Mike Stern and Bob Berg were doing back on Upside-Downside.
If you dig serious East Coast Fusion, i.e. Mike Stern, Krantz, Ribot, Zorn, Oz Noy, etc., Baker oughta fill your chops of doom prescription. The Berklee alum has toured with Steps Ahead, and created various other projects-- some of which even aren't jazz or fusion at all-- so he's also very eclectic. Probably brews beer like Holdsworth as well. Ya never know...
In the above video, be sure to stick around for the second guitar solo at 5:15 following the sax solo. If you prescribe to "if you can sing it, you can play it", watch how he's singing along with his soloing like some of the legendary bebop piano cats. He knows what he's doing!
Miles Davis would have loved Bryan Baker! Woulda called him a Mother F#*@a! too-- the highest compliment an artist could receive from Mr. Davis. Seriously, in the context of having badass chops that was the ultimate honor. You wouldn't call Bryan Baker that though-- you would tell him that Miles would call him that. Etiquette & protocol is essential!
CLICK HERE for the music video of his tune "TEETH" in which one Youtube comment thread chimes in:
"Beastie Boys meets Ornette Coleman after he went drinking with Bela Bartok..."
Reminds me of some of the stuff Mike Stern and Bob Berg were doing back on Upside-Downside.
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