This interview took place in 1975 when Baker was making frequent trips to the Albany, New York area. At the time of this interview Baker, was playing with saxophonist Nick Brignola at Shaker's Steak House in Troy, N.Y. Back in the early 1950's, a young trumpet player whose personal appearance and demeanor was more that of an alley-way hood than of a suit and tie jazz musician, burst on the scene with a sound so gentle and lyrical that he nearly pulled the rug out from under many of the harder bebop trumpet players, and along with Miles Davis, set a style and standard for trumpet playing that was to permeate most of the decade and create a fiery controversy whose smoke remains around us to this day... [ read more ]
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