Press — Tom Baker Music

PRESS QUOTEs
REVIEWs
PRESS PHOTOS

Quotes

“...the acoustical rendition of a Jackson Pollack painting.”
—Mark Peterson, Twenty-First Century Music

“…a delicate, eccentric compositional sense and a tendency toward unruly improvisation.”
—Time Out New York

“Tom Baker’s music plies the shadowy territory between form, isolation, and silence.”
—Christopher DeLaurenti, The Stranger

“Powerful. Starkly beautiful, an almost unbearably moving opera…”
—Paul de Barros, Seattle Times

“There’s a warmth and humanity that sets Baker’s music apart…”
— Dave Wayne, Jazz Review

“Tom Baker is a skilled colorist with an impeccable ear for sonic and expressive possibilities.”
—Gavin Borchert, Seattle Weekly

“If Baker lived in New York instead of his native Seattle, chances are he’d be a fixture on the downtown avant-jazz scene.”
—Time Out New York

"High art or lowbrow, serious or entertaining — fit for a concert hall or suitable for a club?
[Tom Baker’s music] is stepping over these archaic lines of divisive thinking.”
—Amy Rubin, New Music Box

“Creative, free, and at times, funky… pushes the musical envelope."
—All About Jazz

“These tunes have an internal spring-loadedness that’s electrifying.”
—Earshot Jazz Magazine

“Trippy, jazz-hued soundscapes."

—Guitar Player Magazine

“Alarmingly restrained, yet evocative, avant garde jazz, created with great care and structured structurelessness. The space is the music."
—ADD Reviews