MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS

BAKER, JIM
DELMARK

Item Information Artists Name: BAKER, JIM Title: MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS Format: CD Label: DELMARK City Hall Catalog Number:  560 UPC Product Code: 038153056025 List Price: 16.98 Musical Category:  JAZZ Release Date:  3/22/2005 Additional Musical Category Notes:   This is the solo debut by Chicago pianist/synthesist Jim Baker, previously recorded in settings ranging from duets to Ken Vandermark's Territory Bands, and from third-stream projects (with Guillermo Gregorio) to rock groups (with Nicholas Tremulis). Having previously collaborated with reedists (Fred Anderson, Kyle Bruckmann, Nicole Mitchell, Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams) and with various trios (bassists Harrison Bankhead, Josh Abrams; cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm; percussionists Avreeyal Ra, Michael Zerang), Baker set himself the seemingly-paradoxical task of recording an album of free improvisations -- on both piano and analogue synthesizer -- which would have a "somewhat or somehow tuneful" character. Baker has been described as "deeply unusual."