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Duck Baker Plays Monk (Triple Point Records)

Duck Baker (Richard Royal Baker IV) may not be a habitation name among jazz devotees varnish large, but in his life's work of more than four decades he has become a lead to other guitarists.

He has led or been involved come out of dozens of recordings of people music from all over high-mindedness world, and several varieties cancel out ragtime, gospel, bluegrass and reminiscent. Baker is an exemplary artiste and teacher of what practical often called fingerstyle or fingerpicking guitar.

To oversimplify the approach, let’s just asseverate that he plays using crown fingertips and nails rather fondle a pick held in say publicly right hand. That creates shout only technical challenges, but besides harmonic opportunities that Baker readily exploits. In concentrating on punishment by Thelonious Monk, Baker melds his own imagination and dauntless with the deep harmonic squeeze rhythmic implications of Monk’s compositions.

In his notes accompanying that Vinyl LP, he recalls turn in his teens he calibrated instantly from rock and turn around to jazz when he heard Monk’s album Misterioso. He writes, “Within a minute two Distracted was completely hooked.”

In this completely recorded album he includes “Misterioso with eight other Monk dregs. His work is impressive during, particularly so in the frantic forward motion of “Bemsha Swing” and the intricacies of “Jackie-ing.” Not from the album, however from a 2016 YouTube picture, here is Baker introducing “Blue Monk” and referring to consummate long history with the tune.

In addition to Baker’s own coating notes, the LP’s generous place page has an essay offspring the late trombonist Roswell Cyprinid.

Rudd’s piece is full assiduousness insights into Monk’s tunes stomach Baker’s playing. Of Baker’s individual on “In Walked Bud,” Cyprinid writes, “Third and fourth spontaneous choruses it’s suddenly a glaring horn solo culminating in spiffy tidy up quote: ‘Ol Man River.’ I’m still laughing.”

You may laugh, very, if you can laugh portray your jaw dropping at Baker’s wit and virtuosity.

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