Some links to reviews of recent releases:

All About Jazz  - review by Bruce Lindsay:

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=34847

Something else – review by Pico , June 2nd 2009

http://www.somethingelsereviews.com/2009/06/duck-baker-everything-that-rises-must.html

Brilliant Corners – review by Chris Rich , December 24th 2009

http://brilliantcornersabostonjazzblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/small-duck-trove.html

Review by Chris Kelsey, October 8th 2009

http://chriskelsey.com/blog/?tag=ken-filiano

Jazz.com – review by S. Victor Aaron

http://jazz.com/music/2009/5/5/duck-baker-everything-that-rises-must-converge

On Record – The week’s essential new releases

Duck Baker: The Ducks Palace

Stewart Lee

Best known in jazz and bluegrass circles, the guitarist Duck Baker is also an adept improviser, and collaborates here with players that test his limits. Two trios with the saxophonist John Zorn and the percussionist Cyro Baptista seem uncertain. Two blues with Roswell Rudd, the trombonist, alternately embrace and interrogate the familiar form. And three duets from 2002 with the guitarist Derek Bailey exploit the much-missed innovator’s catalytic properties. Initially, Bailey burrows obstinately beneath Baker’s more tonal intonations, until a common language is agreed upon, validating the philosophical inferences of free improvisation as an ethos, an artistic choice and a way of life.

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