{"id":448,"date":"2026-05-11T09:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buxtonjazz.co.uk\/?p=448"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:45:58","slug":"fred-thelonius-baker-15-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buxtonjazz.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/fred-thelonius-baker-15-october-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Thelonius Baker \u2013 15 October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Fred Thelonious Baker, Wednesday 15th October, \u2018Jazz at the Junction\u2019 session at High Peak Bookstore &amp; Cafe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve had Mainstream Jazz with Alan Barnes and David Newton, Contemporary Gypsy Jazz from Ben Holder and Stuart Carter-Smith, Boogie and Blues from Bob Hall and Hilary Blythe, Classic 50s\/60s Modern Jazz courtesy of Rat &amp; the Jazz Cats, and the Nicola Farnon Trio\u2019s sophisticated take on the Classic American Songbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what was a solo guitar and electric bass performance from Fred Thelonious Baker going to contribute to the \u2018palette\u2019 of our regular monthly \u2018Jazz at the Junction\u2019 sessions ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ostensibly perhaps a somewhat more limited evening of entertainment than that of our previous five months ! But no, the range of performative explorations facilitated by his technique on both instruments allowed for a journey through a number of eras and genres, from the pioneering 1930s acoustic stylings of Eddie Lang and Lonnie Johnson, through the 1950s chord-based inversions of Barney Kessel on the guitar, to the heavier electric bass performances redolent of his association with Soft Machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fred&#8217;s son Elliot also accompanied him on guitar on some numbers, and opened the evening with a few solo tunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Thelonious Baker, Wednesday 15th October, \u2018Jazz at the Junction\u2019 session at High Peak Bookstore &amp; Cafe We\u2019ve had Mainstream Jazz with Alan Barnes and David Newton, Contemporary Gypsy Jazz from Ben Holder and Stuart Carter-Smith, Boogie and Blues from Bob Hall and Hilary Blythe, Classic 50s\/60s Modern Jazz courtesy of Rat &amp; the Jazz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buxtonjazz.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Fred-Thelonius-Baker-Bookstore-1025-e1778492718595.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buxtonjazz.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buxtonjazz.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buxtonjazz.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buxtonjazz.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buxtonjazz.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/buxtonjazz.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/buxtonjazz.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buxtonjazz.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buxtonjazz.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buxtonjazz.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buxtonjazz.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}