Tom Baker Quartet at Egan's
Tom Baker and Stuart Dempster - ready for lift-off in the SRTB (Sun Ra Tribute Band).
Press quotes
“Tom Baker’s music plies the shadowy territory between form, isolation, and silence.”
—Christopher DeLaurenti, The Stranger
“The acoustical rendition of a Jackson Pollack painting.”
—Mark Peterson, Twenty-First Century Music
“Powerful. Starkly beautiful, and almost unbearably moving…”
—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
“…a delicate, eccentric compositional sense and a tendency toward unruly improvisation”
—Time Out New York
“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