Joe Baque
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Joseph "Joe" Baque (March 1, 1922 – November 6, 2022) was an American jazz pianist.[1]
Life and work[edit]
Baque grew up in Queens; he began performing at 14 and was soon leading a Saturday night trio with saxophone, piano and drums. At 18 he moved from Queens to Greenwich Village and played jazz clubs on 52nd Street, then in Harlem at a nightclub. This led to encounters with jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. He worked full time as a wedding musician, also played at car shows and sat at the piano at a show in September 1957 when the Ford Edsel was introduced. He took lessons from a concert pianist and studied composition with a student of Arnold Schoenberg.
From the late 1950s and '60s, Baque was active in the New York studio scene. He participated in a doo-wop session for producer Joe Davis in 1959; he also accompanied singer Claudia Wheeler on her Beacon album entitled The Price Is Right.[2]
He made appearances on The Tonight Show, The Merv Griffin Show, and at Carnegie Hall. In 2017, he was given the “Award for Excellence in the Arts” from the Washington Center for the Performing Arts in Olympia.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Joseph Baque's Obituary (1922 - 2022) The Olympian". Legacy.com.
- ↑ "Joe Baque Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More". AllMusic.
- ↑ Vinson, Ty. "Olympia pianist Joseph Baque, who played with Armstrong and Getz, dies at 100". The Olympian. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
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