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Black composer Regina Harris Baiocchi composed "Miles Per Hour" for B-flat or C Trumpet. The composition was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featuring George Vosberg.

Three untitled movements; En Rouge et Noir means literally “in red and black”. While this can be interpreted many ways, this 17 minute work by renowned “Third Stream” composer David Baker explores both “red-hot” and “black” influences in three…

David Baker is best know for his jazz music but this engaging piece is rooted in the more classical flute style. The music is unmistakeably American and both the fast and contrasting slow melodies are wide and expansive. There are plenty of notes to…

Composed in 1981 and formerly published by Frangipani Press, African-American composer David N. Baker’s (1931-2016) “Six Poemes Noir” is a collection of short character pieces.

Reve

Papillon

Omniscient

Chanson

Image

Nocturne

David Nathaniel Baker, Jr (21 December 1931 – 26 March 2016) was an extraordinarily accomplished African-American composer, author, conductor, and teacher; and among the most influential voices in contemporary American music in a career that spanned…

David Nathaniel Baker Jr. (December 21, 1931 – March 26, 2016) was an American jazz composer, conductor, and musician from Indianapolis, as well as a professor of jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Baker is best known as…

This attractive wind quintet won its category in the Newly Published Music competition at the 2019 NFA and it's easy to see why. Unusually it tells a story: one of a country parson visiting a local fair where he encounters all manner of events. The…

David Nathaniel Baker Jr. (December 21, 1931 – March 26, 2016) was an American jazz composer, conductor, and musician from Indianapolis, as well as a professor of jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Baker is best known as…

Black composer, conductor, and musician David Baker wrote this unaccompanied "Sonata for Cello" in 1990.

Black composer, conductor, and musician wrote the "Clarinet Sonata" in 1990. It was performed at the UBC Distinguished Artist Series in Canada. The Sonata is in three movements:

1. Blues
2. Loneliness
3. Dance