David Nathaniel Baker Jr. is an american jazz trombonist (and cellist), composer, lecturer, jazz historian, author and also jazz.
Baker studied (finished 1954) as well as Ph.D. from Indiana University. A job as a trombonist in the jazz scene of Indianapolis has actually been terminated by a jaw injury (he is paying attention to others on Stratusphunk and Ezz-thetics by George Russell), after which he transferred to the cello, yet rather it sought a job as a composer and teacher.
Later on, Baker started as instructor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington, including that he likewise had numerous visitor professorships at various other universities (his pupils consist of Michael Brecker and also Randy Brecker).
He is recognized for various jazz make-ups sometimes symphonic character, the third attributed to stream. He has actually received compensations e.g. of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Beaux Arts Trio, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and also the Audubon String Quartet.
He was also very energetic in it, to document the oral history of jazz, and have written numerous publications on jazz, including one on improvisational method. He was chief conductor as well as creative director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.
Our collection contains 10 quotes who is written / told by David.
"That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back"
"What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses"
"I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done"
"It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice"
"When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps"
"The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel"
"In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music"
"No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions"
"I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious"
"I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation"
