Including those under his own name and those made in duo and trio settings, Duck Baker has to date made about 45 records, and almost all of these are still available, most of them from the online store here. Baker has from the beginning been involved in a wide range of music, from traditional Irish to Old Time American Folk to blues and ragtime fingerpicking to swing, modern, and free jazz and free improvisation, and not many people listen to all these kinds of music. The following listing may help listeners who are focused on particular styles.
FOLK/FINGERPICKING, SWING
There’s Something for Everyone in America
When You Wore a Tulip
Les Blues Du Richmond
Plymouth Rock
The King of Bongo Bong
The County Set
Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans
The Roots And Branches of American Music
The Preacher’s Son
I’m Coming Virginia
Live At The Freight & Salvage (with Ken Emerson)
Duck Baker Meets The Great Pickers (with John Renbourn, Bert Jansch, Stefan Grossman, Davy Graham, Woody Mann, Dale Miller, John James, Jack Lawrence, Ken Emerson, Peppino D’Agostino, Franco Morone, Will Scarlett, Jim Nichols, Bob Wilson, Tokio Uchida, and Yoshihiro Arita)
IRISH, TRADITIONAL FOLK, OLD-TIME
The Kid on the Mountain
The Salutation
American Traditional(with Molly Andrews)
The Moving Business (with Molly Andrews)
My Heart Belongs to Jenny
The Fairy Queen (with Kieran Fahy)
The Expatriate Game (with Maggie Boyle and Ben Paley)
When You Ask a Girl to Leave Her Happy Home (with Dave Hull)
Wink The Other Eye
The Ace And Deuce Of Picking
FINGERSTYLE, MAINLY ORIGINALS
Under Your Heart`
A Thousand Words
Opening the Eyes of Love
The Clear Blue Sky
Ms. Right
Pareto Sketches (with M. Calgaro, V. Bonetti, D. Mastrangelo, L. Maramotti, guitar; M. Gatti, mandolin)
Not The First Time
Contra Costa Dance
There’s No Time Like The Past
The Oak And The Willow (Steve Hicks)
JAZZ
The Art of Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar
Spinning Song: Duck Baker Plays the Music of Herbie Nichols
Out of the Past (with Jamie Findlay, guitar)
Shades of Blue (with Roswell Rudd, trombone; Michael Moore, alto, clarinet; Ben Goldberg, Alex Ward, clarinet; Carla Kihlstadt, violin, Ken Emerson, Hawaiian steel guitar, John Edwards, Joe Williamson, bass)
Duck Baker Plays Monk
The Waltz Lesson(withAlex Ward, clarinet, Joe Williamson, bass)
Amnesia in Trastevere(withAlex Ward, clarinet, Joe Williamson, bass)
Deja Vouty (with Alex Ward, clarinet, John Edwards, bass)
Play Monk In Berkeley (with Ben Goldberg, clarinet)
Tear-Dimmed Eyes
FREE JAZZ, FREE IMPROV
The Guitar Trio in Calgary, 1977
(with Eugene Chadbourne and Randy Hutton)
Outside (with Eugene Chadbourne, guitar, 2 tracks)
Fencing 1978 – John Zorn (the Chadbourne-Baker-Hutton trio plays one version of this Zorn composition. The Zorn-Chadbourne-Polly Bradfield trio plays another) CD only
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Ducks Palace (with Roswell Rudd, trombone; John Zorn, alto; Derek Bailey, guitar; Cyro Baptista, percussion) CD only
Coffee For Three (with Alex Ward, clarinet, John Edwards, bass, Steve Noble, drums)
Cumino In Mia Cucina (with Mike Cooper, guitar)
Confabulations (with Roswell Rudd, trombone; John Butcher, tenor; Michael Moore, alto; Alex Ward, clarinet; Derek Bailey, guitar; Mark Dresser, John Edwards, Joe Williamson, bass; Steve Beresford, piano; Steve Noble, drums)
Live – Roswell Rudd & Duck Baker
Breakdown Lane (with Eugene Chadbourne, guitar, 2 tracks)