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Baker's Keyboard Lounge has hosted the greatest names in blues and jazz since that date. Some of the musicians who have played the club include: Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, George Shearing, Sarah Vaughn, Joe Williams, Maynard Ferguson, Cab Calloway, Woody Herman, Modern Jazz Quartet, and Nat "King" Cole; to name but a few.
Reviewing for The Village Voice in July 2004, Tom Hull said that "this isn't a great album, but it's voluble and exciting the way Carter can be." [4]The Allmusic review by Al Campbell says, "Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge finds Carter cutting loose like a musician who's been conceptually sidetracked long enough.
Scott Yanow of Allmusic stated, "Despite worsening health and terrible eyesight, he was still in very good playing form in 1986 when he performed the music (recorded at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit) that resulted in this previously unissued double-CD from 1997...
Eddie Jefferson was shot and killed outside Baker's Keyboard Lounge on May 8, 1979, aged 60. [1] He had left the club with fellow bandleader Cole around 1:35 a.m. and was shot while walking out of the building. A late-model Lincoln Continental was spotted speeding away from the scene.
By the late 1940s, Ames was leading his own band. Throughout the following decade, the band played around Detroit and other Northern cities, performing at nightspots like the Brass Rail Theater Bar and Baker's Keyboard Lounge, with various big name musicians passing through Detroit, including Nat King Cole and Erroll Garner. Around this time he ...
2004: Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge (Warner Bros.) - recorded 2001; 2005: Out of Nowhere ; 2005: Gold Sounds (Brown Brothers) 2008: Present Tense ; 2009: Heaven on Earth (Half Note) 2009: Skratyology (Stotbrock) with De Nazaten; 2011: Caribbean Rhapsody (EmArcy) 2011: At the Crossroads (EmArcy) 2019: Live From Newport Jazz (Blue Note)
In his 1992 review for the Chicago Tribune, journalist Jack Fuller called the group's approach "simple and direct", and the horn players "as good as I've heard either of them". [2]
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