Pro Musica Musical Evenings Presents Jim Baker & Peter Maunu Duo!!

Musical Evenings is happy to invite you to join us for this very introspective duo!! Ken Christianson, Pro Musica, Chicago

Jim Baker Piano, Synth, Viola
Peter Maunu Violin, Electric Guitar, and Mandolin

Doors Open at 7pm
Concert at 8pm
Artist Donations Requested, all proceeds go to Artists
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Jim Baker has been playing in and around Chicago as a pianist, keyboardist, and synthesist for more than three decades, mostly in improvisational contexts. He initially studied piano with Thomas Scott, of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and studied composition with Morgan Powell and Herbert Brun at the University of Illinois at Urbana. During the 1980's, Baker played frequently in groups led by saxophonist Harold Jones (a.k.a. Hal Raru), and also played in the Nicholas Tremulis band. After leaving the Tremulis group, Baker was an active participant in the then-nascent free improvisation scene, performing with groups including trombonist Bill Barnes; guitarist / xylophonist Rick Barnes; guitarist / banjoist Andre Caporaso; percussionist Steve Hunt, bassist Kent Kessler, shortwave radiotarist / hydrokalimbist Don Meckley; bassist / guitarist / trumpeter Brian Sandstrom; violinist / guitarist / cornetist Daniel Scanlan; mezzo-coloratura Gwendolyn Manter-Seminara; and percussionist / tubaphonist Michael Zerang.

Peter Maunu began a career as a classical violinist after receiving a scholarship from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as a teenager. Influenced by the music of Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles ("Tomorrow Never Knows", 1966), he dealt with the tonal forms of expression of the electric guitar. From the mid-1970s he worked in the bands and studio orchestras of Claus Ogerman (Gate of Dreams; 1976), Billy Cobham (Magic, 1977), Jean-Luc Ponty (Cosmic Messenger, 1978), Bobby McFerrin (1982) and in the fusion band The L.A. Express, in the following years with Michael Wolff, The Commodores and The Pointer Sisters. With Mark Isham, Terry Bozzio, Peter Wolf and Patrick O'Hearn, Maunu formed the formation Group 87 in 1984, with which (after the debut album in 1980) the album A Career in Dada Processing was created. Under his own name, he presented the production Warm Sound in a Gray Field (Narada). In the field of jazz/fusion, he was involved in 22 recording sessions between 1976 and 1998. [1] From the mid-1980s onwards, he worked mainly as a session musician for film music, including with Mark Isham. He has also been featured on Fred Lonberg-Holm's Stirrup+6 album The Avondale Addition (2020) and Mars Williams' An Ayler Xmas Vol. 5 (2021).