national museum of american history:
David Baker and Ken Kimery conducting jazz oral history interview with National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Quincy Jones
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David Baker conducting the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra at the Kennedy Center
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David Baker conducting SJMO's 1999 Duke Ellington Sacred Concert at the National Cathedral
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David Baker interviewing Bill Holman during the SJMO's tribute to Bill Russo and Bill Holman
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David Baker leading SJMO high school clinic in Nashville, Tennessee
national museum of american history:
James Zimmerman, David Baker, Linda and James Moody, Lida Baker, and Ken Kimery
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Lida Baker, David Baker, John Levy, Mulgrew Miller and Devra Hall Levy in front of Smithsonian Jazz exhibition booth at the International Association for Jazz Education conference in New York City
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Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra at their performance in Cairo, Egypt, at the Pyramids of Giza
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Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra 1991 concert season program
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Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra program cover from 1996
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David Baker and Dave Brubeck, both NEA Jazz Masters, with John Edward Hasse, after the latter’s Baccalaureate Address, “Duke Ellington’s Spiritual Journey. . .and Ours,” at The George Washington University, May 2010.
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SJMO Founder John Edward Hasse and SJMO Musical and Artistic Director David Baker, following a concert in the Smithsonian’s Baird Auditorium. (Photo courtesy John Edward Hasse)
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The selection committee for Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology, an acclaimed 6-CD set from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. John Edward Hasse, Dan Morgenstern, David Baker, AlynShipton, Jose Bowen. (Photo courtesy John Edward Hasse)