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  David Baker
David Baker, a Grammy Award winning audio engineer and producer of over 2,000 recordings, died peacefully in his sleep on July 14, 2004.
Born David Howard Baker on October 12, 1945 in Mt. Vernon, NY, he was the son of the late Harry Alexander Baker and the late Viola Tenore Baker.
David Baker's grandfather was a salesman for Columbia Records in the late 1920's.
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 David Baker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana David Baker attended Cripus Attucks High School.
Probably the best known students ever to pass under his tutelage are Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker and the jazz-education mogul Jamey Aebersold.
David Baker is also the conductor and musical director of the Smithsonian Masterworks Orchestra, a position he has held since ?.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Baker   (306 words)

  
 David Baker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Baker has also received the National Association of Jazz Educators Hall of Fame Award, Presidents’ Award for distinguished teaching from Indiana University, the Arts Midwest Jass Masters Award, and the Governor’s Arts Award of the State of Indiana.
Baker was also the original trombonist with the important George Russell Sextet of the early 1960s.
Baker’s over 2000 compositions range from jazz sonatas to film scores, and he has more than 65 recordings and 70 books to his credit.
www.indiana.edu /~wfiu/david_baker.htm   (359 words)

  
 IU’s Living Jazz Legend: David Baker: Advancing Indiana: Indiana University
Baker founded the IU Jazz Studies Department in Bloomington, and he has spent the past 40 years establishing it as one of the country’s premiere jazz studies departments.
Baker is one of the nation's leading spokesmen for jazz and its cultural and historical significance.
Baker lent his talent to the community during IU’s 20th annual ArtsWeek celebration in February 2004 to put together a concert that revisited the Indianapolis jazz scene of the 1930s and ’40s.
advancing.indiana.edu /minds/baker.shtml   (833 words)

  
 Baker Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Baker has been nominated for a Grammy Award, honored three times by Down Beat Magazine (as a trombonist, for lifetime achievement, and as the third inductee to their 1994 Jazz Education Hall of Fame), and has received the Arts Midwest Jazz Masters Award (1990) and the Governor's Arts Award of the State of Indiana (1991).
A dedicated music educator, Baker's involvement in music organizations has encompassed membership on the National Council on the Arts; board positions for the American Symphony Orchestra League, Arts Midwest, and the Afro-American Bicentennial Hall of Fame/Museum; and past chairs of the Jazz Advisory Panel to the Kennedy Center and the Jazz/Folk/Ethnic Panel of the NEA.
Baker is also Co-Conductor and Co-Musical Director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, President of the National Jazz Service Organization, Vice President of the International Association of Jazz Educators, and senior consultant for music programs for the Smithsonian Institution.
www.subitomusic.com /baker_bio.htm   (379 words)

  
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Baker is Director of the Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine, and Attending Veterinarian for LSU.
Baker teaches in the 2nd and 3rd year professional curriculum, serves as faculty sponsor for the Student Christian Veterinary Mission and the Student Chapter of the American Society of Laboratory Animal Practitioners, and trains veterinary residents specializing in laboratory animal medicine.
Dr. Baker's research interests are primarily in the field of parasitic and other infectious diseases of laboratory animals.
www.vetmed.lsu.edu /pbs/baker.html   (216 words)

  
 Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra to make Bloomington debut
David Baker is one of the nation's leading spokesmen for jazz and its cultural and historical significance.
Baker is chairman of the Jazz Studies Department in the School of Music and one of the nation's leading jazz composers and educators.
Baker said that audiences who come to listen to the orchestra often get the rare opportunity to hear music composed by the jazz masters that may never have been recorded or performed on stage.
newsinfo.iu.edu /news/page/normal/1046.html   (741 words)

  
 HHMI News: Rosetta May Hold Key to Predicting Protein Folding
David A. Baker and his colleagues has proven quite successful in predicting the three-dimensional structure of a folded protein from its linear sequence of amino acids.
Even a few years ago, says Baker, success in predicting how proteins assume their intricate three-dimensional forms was considered highly unlikely if there was no related protein of known structure.
Baker concurs: "While these three-dimensional structures are not detailed enough, for example, for structure-based drug design, they can yield invaluable insights into the function of unknown proteins," said Baker.
www.hhmi.org /news/baker.html   (965 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: David Augustine Baker
A well-known Benedictine mystic and an ascetic writer, born at Abergavenny, England, 9 December, 1575; died of the plague in London, 9 August, 1641.
In 1624 he was sent to the newly established convent of Benedictine nuns at Cambrai, not as chaplain, but to aid in forming the spiritual character of the religious.
During his short sojourn in London, Father Baker was forced frequently to change his abode in order to avoid the pursuivants who were on his track.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02212b.htm   (646 words)

  
 W. David Baker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
David Baker is awarded the James H. McGraw Award in Engineering Technology Education for his outstanding contributions to engineering technology education as an administrator and educator, for his conspicuous leadership, and for his noteworthy professional achievements.
Baker left SUNY to become the Director of the School of Engineering Technology and a Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he was responsible for overseeing 1300 students and 47 faculty and staff.
Baker has been instrumental in the development of two new departments and five new baccalaureate programs, including one of the first engineering technology programs in the nation to be delivered via distance learning.
www.purdue.anderson.edu /etd/davidb.html   (438 words)

  
 David Baker
Baker D.A. Adenylyl and guanylyl cyclases from the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Baker, D.A. and Kelly J.M. Structure, function and evolution of microbial adenylyl and guanylyl cyclases.
Baker, D.A. andKelly, J.M. Purine nucleotide cyclases in the malaria parasite.
www.lshtm.ac.uk /pmbu/staff/dbaker/dbaker.html   (525 words)

  
 DAVID BAKER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
David joined The Walchli Tauber Group in October 1999 after spending a year at WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where he sold advertising space for Central PA Magazine, a regional public broadcasting consumer magazine.
Previous to David's employment with WITF, he spent 12 years with Williams and Wilkins where he worked with Gary, Steve and Roland in the advertising sales department.
David, who is originally from Baltimore, currently lives in New Freedom, Pennsylvania with his wife, Mary Ellen and their 13 year old daughter, Jennifer.
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 Teachers Want To Keep David Baker
On July 1, Baker was issued a 90-day interim contract with an option for another 90 days to fill in for former Principal Janet Haley, who was on paid administrative leave at the time.
Baker was set to leave his job at the St. Johnsbury School at the end of June.
However, Baker said he is willing to stay as long as it takes, but after 180 days he will only be able to work three days a week instead of four.
www.caledonianrecord.com /pages/local_news/story/0cfb1f198   (580 words)

  
 Fanfare: Office of Marketing and Publicity: School of Music: Indiana University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Distinguished Professor of Music Baker was recently presented with the golden statue announced September 18 during ceremonies hosted by the Cleveland chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Baker won the award for writing eight compositions for the PBS film “For Gold and Glory” about fl race-car driver Charlie Wiggins in the 1920s.
Baker serves as the conductor and artistic director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.
music.indiana.edu /publicity/fanfare/2005.0128/baker.shtml   (343 words)

  
 Poet of the Month: David Baker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
David Baker was born in 1954 in Bangor, Maine, and grew up in central Missouri.
Baker is author of five books of poetry: The Truth about Small Towns (1998), After the Reunion (1994), Sweet Home, Saturday Night (1991), all from the University of Arkansas Press, as well as Haunts (1985, Cleveland State) and Laws of the Land (1981, Ahsahta).
Baker currently holds a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and has received earlier grants and honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Society of Midland Authors.
members.aol.com /poetrynet/month/archive/baker/intro.html   (485 words)

  
 IU's David Baker and fellow jazz masters to revisit Indianapolis jazz scene of the 1930s and '40s
Baker has gathered a team of musicians, including fellow Indianapolis jazz master David Young, IU jazz professor Luke Gillespie and bassist Frankie Smith, to recreate the city's legendary jazz scene in a concert on Feb. 28 at 8 p.m.
By the end of the 1960s, Baker had learned a new instrument (the cello), established a jazz studies department at IU Bloomington and set forth in his current role as a cultural leader and advocate for jazz education.
Baker is excited about introducing a new generation of jazz lovers to the sounds made famous on Indiana Avenue.
newsinfo.iu.edu /news/page/normal/1277.html   (934 words)

  
 Jazz Education Article
BAKER: Well first, it gave us all of us who were earning our livings playing music at fraternity houses and dances and the like a way to play those standards that didn't compromise the jazz voice we wanted to emulate.
BAKER: It was also constricting for me when I studied it because it said, "If you do this, therefore that." George's book never said "If you do this, therefore, that." It simply says that if you're looking at the whole sphere of music since Pythagoras.
BAKER: I have three primary goals: enlarging our membership, continuing the globalization process, and making a greater effort to create an awareness of the cultural, historical, and social contexts in which jazz was created and continues to develop.
www.iaje.org /article.asp?ArticleID=106   (8503 words)

  
 Milestones of the Millennium: Jazz Influences on Classical
Baker observes how Milhaud captures a sense of “swing” as he imitates the New Orleans Dixieland sound by using polyphonic structure and jazz instrumentation.
Baker and Martin listen to the bluesy middle movement of Gershwin’s Concerto in F. While jazz became more evident in orchestral composing, Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein both wrote jazz-inspired pieces for jazz ensembles.
Baker also explains that the marriage of jazz and classical continues to advance as composers gain a fuller understanding of both traditions.
www.npr.org /programs/specials/milestones/990210.motm.jazz.html   (512 words)

  
 David Arthur Baker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He is survived by his daughter Christy A. Baker, resident of Scottsdale, Arizona; brothers John T. Baker, H. Charles Baker, James C. Baker, his aunt Mary Ellen Mull as well as several nieces and nephews all residing in Logansport, Indiana.
David was born May 23, 1940 in Logansport, Indiana where he lived until his high school graduation in 1958.
David was a resident of the state of Arizona for more than 20 years of his life.
www.kconline.com /bob/RIP/DAB.htm   (220 words)

  
 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Ancestors of David Keith Baker
William Baker was a veteran of the War of 1812 and fought in the Battle of New Orleans.
Son John Wesley Baker, as an official of Hancock Co., gave state funds to Thomas T. Livesay to build the pike road from Rogersville by way of War Gap to Kyles Ford to the VA line now route 70 for the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars.
Baker, you seem to be prouder than your Master: I believe He never rode on as fine an animal as you are on." "No", was the quick retort, "they have made 'squires of the asses, leaving me nothing in that line to ride." The tables were turned and the joke was on the other fellow.
familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/b/a/k/David-Baker-3/GENE2-0011.html   (9807 words)

  
 David Baker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An epigraph from Pindar, "In a single moment of time/Many are the winds that blow this way and that," introduces the first section; the Hesiod epigraph introduces the middle section; an epigraph from Proba, "And so the year turns over and over on itself,/ Traces the tracks it has laid many times before.
Within these relatively small groupings of poems, David Baker presents a fascinating diversity: There is, to begin, "Benton’s Clouds," a 60 line, fifteen-stanza commentary on both the story-art of Thomas Hart Benton and the real art of a present moment ".
If, as Hesiod has written, few really know whether those days are a great boon or doomless, then Baker’s poems in the present collection stand as earnest of every poet’s commitment–whether knowing or unknowing–to that task of praise.
www.cmsu.edu /englphil/Baker.html   (290 words)

  
 Rosetta algorithm allows ab initio protein folding prediction from sheer amino acid sequence
Even a few years ago, according to researcher David A. Baker, success in predicting how proteins assume their intricate three-dimensional forms was considered very unlikely if there was no related protein of known structure.
The amazing thing is that David Baker's group had 31 points and the next best group had 8 points.
David Baker concurred: "While these three-dimensional structures are not detailed enough, for example, for structure-based drug design, they can yield invaluable insights into the function of unknown proteins.
www.hoise.com /vmw/01/articles/vmw/LV-VM-03-01-28.html   (885 words)

  
 Jazz in America - About the Authors
Baker received both bachelor's and master's degrees in music education from Indiana University and has studied with a wide range of master teachers, performers, and composers including J.J. Johnson, Bobby Brookmeyer, Janos Starker, George Russell, William Russo, Bernard Heiden, and Gunther Schuller.
As a composer, Dr. Baker has been commissioned by more than 500 individuals and ensembles, including Josef Gingold, Ruggerio Ricci, Janos Starker, Harvey Phillips, the New York Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Beaux Arts Trio, Fisk jubilee Singers, Louisville Symphony, Ohio Chamber Orchestra, the Audubon String Quartet, and the International Horn Society.
Baker's involvement in music organizations has encompassed membership on the National Council on the Arts; board positions for the American Symphony Orchestra League, Arts Midwest, and the Afro-American Bicentennial Hall of Fame/Museum; and past chairs of the Jazz Advisory Panel to the Kennedy Center and the Jazz/Folk/Ethnic Panel of the NEA.
www.jazzinamerica.org /authors.asp?AuthorID=2   (313 words)

  
 Stereophile: David Baker: 1945–2004
Baker was all but born to the trade, according to Eugene Chadborne's biography at allmusic.com.
David Baker tended to work with the same musicians time and time again—or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that musicians, having once worked with Mr.
Baker's death was unexpected, and as of press time, there have been few details.
www.stereophile.com /news/072604baker   (760 words)

  
 David Baker Memorial Service
We are deeply saddened to have to report that the great recording engineer David Baker has passed away.
Baker was a very generous teacher and shared his knowledge, experience and opinions freely.
Baker by continuing to make excellent recordings as he would have wished us to.
www.avatarstudios.net /news/BakerMemorialService.html   (240 words)

  
 David Baker
A.M. Condo, Jr., D.C. Baker, R.A. Moreau, and K.B. Hicks, J. Agric.
Baker received his B.S. in Chemistry degree from The University of Tennessee in 1969 and his Ph.D. degree from The Ohio State University in 1973.
Dr. Baker is active in the Carbohydrate, Medicinal, and Organic Divisions of the American Chemical Society.
www.chem.utk.edu /baker.html   (547 words)

  
 David Baker & Company, Chartered Surveyors and Estate Agents
David Baker and Company was founded and opened in 1969.
By remaining totally independant we have always been able to instantly meet all demands of a rapidly changing market place and our fees have always been, and will continue to be, as competitive as any of our rivals.
Our company has earned a reputation for being "large enough to cope but small enough to care" and properties that are on the market with David Baker and Company are prominently exhibited in a large window display and advertised on a regular basis in the local and national press.
www.davidbaker.co.uk   (223 words)

  
 David Baker
David Baker studied with J.J. Johnson, Janos Starker, and George Russell.
Baker has received the Down Beat Magazine's New Star Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, Jazz Education Hall of Fame Award, the National Association of Jazz Educators Hall of Fame Award, and the National Endowment for the Arts American Jazz Masters Award.
IU's David Baker and several of his fellow Indianapolis jazz masters will revisit Indiana Avenue, the heart of the Indianapolis jazz scene of the 1930s and '40s, in a Feb. 28 concert at the John Waldron Arts Center auditorium in Bloomington.
info.music.indiana.edu /sb/page/normal/22.html   (529 words)

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