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SOUL AS SUBSTANCE: 71 Magazine Features The Baylor Project!
Jean Baylor
INTERVIEW: All About Jazz Chats to The Baylor Project!
Marcus Baylor’s coalescence of various American music styles into his playing has already secured him a spot in the history of post-modern jazz drummers. In the book, The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the 21st Century (Chicago Review Press, 2009), authors Joachim-Ernst Berendt and Günther Huesmann cite Baylor as one of an exclusive list of drummers that … Read More
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Grammy Nominated Vocalist Jean Baylor Joins Manhattan School of Music Faculty
Grammy Nominated Vocalist Jean Baylor Joins Manhattan School of Music Faculty New York, NY — Multiple Grammy nominee Jean Baylor is proud to announce that she has joined the faculty at Manhattan School of Music. Starting this semester, Jean will be teaching Jazz Voice and Ensembles in the Jazz Arts program, under the direction of Jazz Arts Director … Read More
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Features The Baylor Project & Their Double Grammy Nomination!
Kevin C. Johnson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Everything jazz duo the Baylor Project has done has been strategic, and that includes a current, early career benchmark — two Grammy nominations going into Sunday night’s 60th annual Grammy Awards ceremony. It was all part of the plan since Marcus Baylor and his wife, Jean Baylor, formed the … Read More
The Morning Call Interviews The Baylor Project Ahead of This Weekend’s Grammy Awards
Will Gordon, The Morning Call The Baylor Project, with Macungie manager, grabs two Grammy nominations Bad ideas sometimes seem so crazy they just might work. For vocalist Jean Baylor, her husband’s suggestion that they form a group together wasn’t one of them. “I thought it was a completely stupid idea, but you know, I came … Read More
The Baylor Project Perform on WBGO’s “Morning Jazz” Ahead of this Weekend’s Grammy Awards
Nate Chinen & Gary Walker, WBGO The Baylor Project — a flagship of the vocalist Jean Baylor and the drummer Marcus Baylor, partners in music as in marriage — will be in the running for two Grammy awards this month. Tellingly, the nominations are in different genre categories: Best Jazz Vocal Album and Best Traditional … Read More
Asbury Park Press Features The Baylor Project’s Double Grammy Nomination
Chris Jordan, Asbury Park Press Getting a Grammy Award nomination can be a life-changing event. Getting two is doubly so. Just ask Jean and Marcus Baylor of the South Jersey-based The Baylor Project. Their album, “The Baylor Project: The Journey,” is nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammy, and the album track, “Laugh And Move … Read More
VIBE Magazine Features The Baylor Project Ahead of this Weekend’s GRAMMY Awards
Da’Shan Smith, VIBE The Baylor Project harkens on jazz soul, as husband Marcus Baylor’s soft drum leads a pianist and string band while his mezzo-soprano wife Jean Baylor takes A to middle C vocal command on “Laugh And Move On”.
The Baylor Project Speak with Parvati Magazine Ahead of This Week’s Grammy Awards
Parvati Magazine This month Parvati Magazine spoke with husband and wife jazz duo Marcus and Jean Baylor of The Baylor Project, about their Grammy nominated album “The Journey”, and their life together. Parvati Magazine: I love the name of your record label, Be A Light, which is fitting because this month’s issue is called The Light … Read More
Arnaldo Desouteiro Includes an Array of LLP Artists in his 2017 Jazz Station Awards
Arnaldo Desouteiro, Jazz Station Keyboards: 9. Chris McCarthy (“Sonder” –RPR) Drums: 11. Anders Vestergard (“Inside Turnabout” – Drumvoice Records) 12. Victor Lewis (“Akua’s Dance” w/ Akua Dixon – Akua’s Music) 13. Ralph Peterson (“Common Ground” w/ B.J. Jansen – Ronin Jazz) Vibes/ Marimba: 4. Nikara Warren (“Mae Sun Vol.1: Inter-Be” – Calmit Productions) Miscellaneous: 1. … Read More