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'''Abie "Available" Baker''' {{italics correction|''(né''}} '''Leslie Robert Baker'''; 28 September 1913, in [[South Bend, Indiana]] – 14 February 1993, in [[Harlem]]) was an American [[session musician]], [[arrangement|arranger]], and bandleader who played [[double bass]] on [[jazz]], [[R&B]], and [[pop music|pop]] recordings in [[New York City]], from 1934 through the early 1960s. His credits have been chronicled under the names '''Abe Baker''' (rarely), '''Abie Baker''' (mostly), and '''Abie "Available" Baker'''.<br />
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== Career ==<br />
As [[New York City|New York]] [[Studio recording|session]] bassist in jazz from 1934 to 1960, he recorded with [[Blanche Calloway]], [[Snub Mosley]], [[Herman Chittison]], Joey Thomas, [[Titus Turner]] and the [[Howard Biggs|Howard Biggs Orchestra]], Dosie Terry, [[Big John Greer|John Greer]], [[George James (musician)|George James]] and the [[Howard Biggs|Howard Biggs Orchestra]], [[Johnny Hartman]] and the [[Howard Biggs|Howard Biggs Orchestra]], Jimmy "Baby Face" Lewis, [[Hadda Brooks]], Melvin Smith (vocalist), [[The Du-Droppers]], [[Annie Laurie (musician)|Annie Laurie]], [[Larry Darnell]], [[Ethel Ennis]], Jimmy Tyler, Bobbie and Ronald (vocalists), [[Varetta Dillard]], [[Cootie Williams]], [[Bill Doggett]], [[Little Willie John]], [[Ruth Brown]], [[King Curtis]], [[LaVern Baker]], [[Big Joe Turner]], Teddy Humphries, [[Little Jimmy Scott]], and Baby Boy Jennings & The Satellites.<ref name="Lord-Discography" /><br />
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Around 1936, he was a member of [[Claude Hopkins]]' touring orchestra.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=TH_wj7WCaNsC&dq=%22Abie+Baker%22+bass&pg=PA99 David Griffiths, ''Hot Jazz: From Harlem to Storyville'', Scarecrow Press, 1998, p.99]</ref><br />
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By 1949, he had started recording in New York with his own trio and singer Richie Cannon (previously of [[The Ravens]]).<ref>[http://www.uncamarvy.com/Ravens/ravens01.html Marv Goldberg, "The Ravens - Part 1", ''Marv Goldberg's R&B Notebooks'']. Retrieved 5 March 2019</ref><br />
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As New York [[Studio recording|session]] bassist in [[R&B]] during the 1950s, he recorded for labels that included [[Savoy Records|Savoy]] and [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]] with [[Sister Rosetta Tharpe]], [[Marie Knight]],<ref>[https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/161653/Baker_Abie_instrumentalist_string_bass "Abie Baker", ''Discography of American Historical Recordings'']. Retrieved 5 March 2019</ref><ref name=allmusic>[https://www.allmusic.com/artist/abe-baker-mn0001345818 Biography by Eugene Chadbourne, ''Allmusic.com'']. Retrieved 5 March 2019</ref> [[Hadda Brooks]], [[Nappy Brown]], [[Big Maybelle]], [[The Coasters]], and [[The Drifters]].<ref name=naps/> He also played on the banned 1957 album ''My Pussy Belongs to Daddy'', credited to Faye Richmonde.<ref name=allmusic/><br />
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In filmography, Baker, in 1959, performed on "The Web", an instrumental released on the small Laurel label which was later used as part of the score for the camp [[horror movie]] ''[[The Brain That Wouldn't Die]]''.<ref name=naps>[http://officenaps.com/category/jazz-obscura/page/3/ "Midnight in the Naked City", ''OfficeNaps.com'']. Retrieved 5 March 2019</ref><br />
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In June 1965, Baker established two record labels, Internationale and Forest Green, both in New York.<ref name="Record-World 1965 Jun 5" /> He also established publishing companies. With Johnny Worlds, he established and headed Worlds-Baker Enterprises, covering several record labels, publishing, marketing and distribution.<ref name="Billboard 1968 Jan 27" /><br />
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== Family ==<br />
Some sources state that he was the father of guitarist [[Mickey Baker]], with whom he played on sessions during the 1950s,<ref name=naps/> but this conflicts with other sources about Mickey Baker's parentage.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/arts/music/mickey-baker-guitarist-whose-riffs-echo-today-dies-at-87.html?_r=0|title=Mickey Baker, Guitarist, Is Dead at 87|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=30 November 2012 |access-date=2014-05-21 |last1=Weber |first1=Bruce }}</ref><br />
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==Discography==<br />
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'''With [[Bill Doggett]]'''<br />
*''[[Doggett Beat for Dancing Feet]]'' (King, 1957)<br />
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<ref name="Billboard 1968 Jan 27">{{cite magazine |ref={{SfnRef|''Billboard,'' January 27,|1968|p=}} |last1=Billboard |date=January 27, 1968 |title=Worlds-Baker Consolidates Divisions Into Four Units |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Abie+baker&pg=PA10 |volume=80 |issue=4 |page=10 |access-date=March 5, 2019 |via=[[Google Books]] |author1-link=Billboard (magazine) }}</ref><br />
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<ref name="Lord-Discography">''[[The Jazz Discography]],'' [[Tom Lord]] (ed.) (retrieved December 17, 2015)</ref><br />
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<ref name="Record-World 1965 Jun 5">{{cite magazine |ref={{SfnRef|''Record World,'' June 5,|1965|p=}} |last1=Record World |date=June 5, 1965 |title=New Forest Label |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Record-World/60s/65/RW-1965-06-05.pdf |volume=19 |issue=939 |page=18 |access-date=December 17, 2020 |via=americanradiohistory.com; David Frackelton Gleason (born 1946), [[Cleveland]] |author1-link=Record World }}</ref><br />
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