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Always searching for that perfect balance between the accessible and the elusive (academic, avant-garde, classical, high-art, alternative, and in general unpopular) in music, my current solution is to play for a wide variety of occasions and audiences. Recently (in 2008), this has included solo trombone premieres and improvisations, studio recording, and performances with the Montclair Women’s Big Band, Berkeley Opera, Santa Cruz Symphony, holidays/rites of passage, the song-play Beowulf, SFSound, Emily Bezar, the R&B Free Jazz Gospel Supreme 80, Brassiosaurus, the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse (an international ensemble), Bush of Ghosts, and other improvising, free-jazz groups on both east and west coasts. Some venues where I have performed include Yoshi’s, Julia Morgan Theater, Kennedy Center, living rooms, bars like Café du Nord, the streets of Chinatown, Ashby Stage, Intersection for the Arts, Yale, Sarah Lawrence College, and avant-garde music venues like 21 Grand in Oakland.

Playing such a wide, unusual assortment of music is challenging both musically and socially, lending itself to a unique perspective on life. When I figure out just what that perspective could be I’ll let you know.

This site contains sound clips of my Lyrical Vibrations project as well as links to other solos I have commissioned and premiered. In the photo gallery, you’ll find samples of my Dilapidated Barns project- images of the farm on which I grew up. I’ll let you find the rest. -Jen Baker