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Lynn Baker is an active saxophone performer and clinician, performing with his own Lynn Baker Quarte, the telematic duo Digital Void, The Bottesini Project, and the beats-electronic-free improvisation trio Gemstone Debris. He is a Conn-Selmer Artist Clinician and has made appearances at colleges, universities, high schools, and festivals, which have taken him across North America, Europe, and to Asia. He is an Origin Records recording artist with Azure Intention released in 2010 and LectroCoustic in 2013.

 Lynn is an award-winning composer, performer, and educator winning the 1995 COVisions Award for Jazz Composition, the 1987 Westside Composer Award (Minneapolis, MN), the 1980 Ruth Loraine Close award in performance from the University of Oregon, and the 2005 Downbeat Magazine award for Outstanding Achievement in Jazz Education – College Level. The University of Denver awarded Lynn their prestigious University Lecturer award 2019-20. The University Lecturer award acknowledges one faculty member of the university during most years since 1955. Lynn is only the second faculty from the Lamont School of Music to be acknowledged with the honor of University Lecturer. Students and ensembles from Lamont are frequent Downbeat Student Music Award winners. Lynn’s compositions are published by UNC Jazz Press and Malcor Music Publishing. His unique and innovative texts on jazz improvisation; The Shape Method, and accompanying books Etude Supplements, Vols. 1 and2 can be purchased at amazon. He has also published a set of exercise books that combine jazz foundational materials with flamenco rhythmic concepts– Jazz Fundamentals in Flamenco can also be purchased at Amazon.

Lynn is a Recording Academy/Grammy-nominated educator and the former Director of the Jazz Studies and Commercial Music Program at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver, where he currently teaches Jazz and Improvised Music. Lynn holds degrees from the University of Oregon and Western Oregon University and has also studied at Mt Hood Community College with Larry McVeigh and at Indiana University with David Baker, Dominic Spera and Eugene Rousseau. Before coming to Denver in 1993 Lynn taught at Indiana University, Carleton College, and universities in Oregon.