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| | Baker Bio |
 | | 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 native of Indianapolis, Baker received both bachelor's and master's degrees in music education from Indiana University and has studied with a wide range of teachers, performers, and composers including J.J. Johnson, Bobby Brookmeyer, Janos Starker, George Russell, William Russo, and Gunther Schuller, among others. |
 | | 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. |
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