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	Jackson, Keefe / Jim Baker / Julian Kirshner: Routines Label: Kettle Hole Records Product Code: 32771 Catalog Code: KTHL007 Country: USA		Price: $12.95 In Stock
Three leaders in the Chicago free improv scene--Keefe Jackson on tenor & sopranino saxophones, Jim Baker on piano & synthesizer and Julian Kirshner on drums--in a collective album of concentrative conversation, a group of equals that function together through close listening and interactive support in expressive playing that leaves ego out of the equation.
	Baker, Jim / Brandon Lopez / Bill Harris: Dura Label: Amalgam Product Code: 32190 Catalog Code: AMA034 Country: USA		Price: $9.95 In Stock
Recorded while double bassist Brandon Lopez was in Chicago, frequent collaborators from two generations--keyboardist Jim Baker on piano and Arp Synth and drummer/percussionist Bill Harris--joined together to record this live-in-the-studio album of highly interactive, explorative, propulsive and often cathartic free improvisation.
	Rempis / Baker / Abrams / Ra: SCYLLA Label: Aerophonic Product Code: 32051 Catalog Code: AR035 Country: USA		Price: $13.95 In Stock
Joining the Chicago ensemble of Dave Rempis on alto, tenor & baritone saxophones, bassist Joshua Abrams and drummer/percussionist Avreeayl Ra is pianist & synth player Jim Baker, performing at Elastic Arts in July 2021 as the venue reopened after pandemic shutdowns, the significance clear in the spiritual power and inspired performances of all 4 players.
	Williams, Mars Presents: An Ayler Xmas Vol.5 Label: Astral Spirits / Soul What Records Product Code: 31244 Catalog Code: SW009 / AS194 Country: USA		Price: $12.95 In Stock
This year's An Ayler Xmas is the 5th in the series from saxophonist Mars Williams, mashing holiday classics with works by saxophonist Albert Ayler, with the amazing sextet of Josh Berman on cornet, Jim Baker on piano, viola & Arp Synth, Brian Sandstrom on bass, guitar & trumpet, Steve Hunt on drums, Peter Maunu on violin and Kent Kessler or Krzysztof Pabian on bass.
	Rumback, Charles: Seven Bridges [VINYL + DOWNLOAD] Label: Astral Spirits Product Code: 31170 Catalog Code: AS151 Country: USA		Price: $19.95 In Stock
Merging disparate styles into music that is clearly jazz-based, warm and beautifully structured, Chicago drummer and composer Charles Rumback's 7th album as a leader assembles a large group of luminaries including Jim Baker, Ron Miles, Jason Stein, and Greg Ward for a set of instrumentals and songs that are effusive but never sentimental, a beautiful balance.
	Williams, Mars Presents: An Ayler Xmas Vol. 4: Chicago vs. NYC [VINYL] Label: Astral Spirits / Soul What Records Product Code: 29788 Catalog Code: AS154LP/SWR008_LP Country: USA		Price: $24.95 In Stock
This year's An Ayler Xmas, the 4th in the series from saxophonist Mars Williams, expands to a double CD with recordings from two bands: Josh Berman, Jim Baker, Kent Kessler, Brian Sandstrom & Steve Hunt (Chicago); and Steve Swell, Hilliard Greene, Chris Corsano, Nels Cline & Fred Lonberg-Holm (NYC); in incredible free jazz mashups and bash-ups of Holiday favorites.
	Jackson / Baker / Kirshner: So Glossy and So Thin [CASSETTE W/ DOWNLOAD] Label: Astral Spirits Product Code: 29691 Catalog Code: AS129CS Country: USA		Price: $7.95 In Stock
The second release for the Chicago trio of Keefe Jackson on tenor & sopranino saxophones, Jim Baker on piano & synthesizer, and Julian Kirshner on drums, following their 2016 album The Noisy Miner, are heard in two performances a year apart at the Hungry Brain, each an extended exploration of remarkably compatible, creative and uniquely lyrical collective collaboration.av
	Rumback, Charles: June Holiday Label: Astral Spirits Product Code: 29225 Catalog Code: AS111CD Country: USA		Price: $11.95 In Stock
A soulful and lyrically passionate album of modern jazz from Chicago drummer Charles Rumback in a trio with pianist Jim Baker and bassist John Tate, their third album together, with all three bringing compositions to the session, yielding a sensitive, understated yet impeccable balance of melodic music that reveals great strength at its center.
	Erb, Christoph / Jim Baker / Frank Rosaly: ...Don't Buy Him A Parrot... Label: Hatology Product Code: 21670 Catalog Code: hatOLOGY728 Country: Switzerland		Price: $18.95 In Stock
Saxophonist and bass clarinetist Christoph Erb travels between Europe and Chicago, here in a trio with Chicago mainstays, pianist Jim Baker and drummer Frank Rosaly, for an intense and fierce album of collective improvisation captured live at their second-only encounter on the stage of the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago in 2014.
	Gregorio, Guillermo: Faktura Label: Hat [now] ART Product Code: 18491 Catalog Code: Hat[now]ART146 Country: Switzerland		Price: $17.95 In Stock
Guillermo Gregorio produces a series of compositions that reinterprets the structural concepts of Constructivism, Concretism, and Madi, focusing on the physicality of sound.