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Issaquah Press: Bake's opens its living room to new variety show

When Craig Baker first opened Bake’s Place in Providence Point a decade ago, he hoped to create a more intimate setting for an audience to listen to jazz music. It was akin to inviting 70 or so of his closest friends to his living room.

Greta Matassa has been the longest running performer in Baker’s living room, bringing her impressive repertoire from her regular stomping grounds of Seattle. Matassa has been named the Earshot Jazz Vocalist Singer of the Year ... more

Issaquah Reporter: Bake's Place: All it's jazzed up to be

What started in the basement of Craig and Laura Baker's house has now evolved into a world class jazz venue that attracts nationwide attention.

Bake's Place, a jazz venue and restaurant has, come a long way from the basement of the couple's bed and breakfast in Fall City. It was recently named one of the top 100 best jazz venues by Downbeat Magazine ... more

Issaquah Press: ArtEAST project interprets the measure of a life

Sixteen local artists have taken up the challenge of visually depicting the lifework of somoe of Issaquah's most influential citizens for artEAST's Collective Memory project. ...more

Seattle Times: Multilingual Jackie Ryan sings with conviction, emotion and clarity

[Jackie] Ryan's the real item. She doesn't just sing beautifully and in tune, but with the kind of conviction that makes you feel her life depended on your understanding what she was saying.
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Bake's Place Launches Visiting Songbirds Series

Grammy Award nominee Nancy King, Downbeat readers’ poll winner Nancy Kelly and world-renowned Rebecca Parris are among several jazz vocalists who will perform at Issaquah’s Bake’s Place as part of the club’s Visiting Songbirds series that launches in January and runs through summer.
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Review - SeattleJazzScene.com

Baker and his wife and partner, Laura, are on a simple mission, which is to “preach the gospel of jazz”. If the Bakers are preaching, then Bake’s is certainly their church. Downbeat magazine voted Bake’s as one of the top 100 jazz clubs in the world, and there is a reason for that.
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Restaurant Review - Issaquah Press

Step into the town hall at Providence Point and discover one of the best-kept secrets in town -- and perhaps the greater Seattle area.
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Downbeat Magazine - Bake's Place named one fo the Top 100 Jazz Clubs

"... the music in this secluded little supper club is first rate ..."
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Profile - The Seattle Times (August 1, 2003)

A few months ago, "Bake" found what he was looking for. The new Bake's Place opens this weekend in what used to be the Pointe Terrace restaurant at Providence Point, a gated retirement community in Issaquah. READ MORE >>

Rembering The Old Bake's Place:

The Seattle Times (05/26/00): Jazz, Etc.: This house of jazz is like a private party

How many times have you thought about going out to a club to hear a jazz group, then said, "I wish I could hear great jazz in my own living room!" That's what Craig Baker, a semi-retired mechanical engineer on the Eastside, thought, too. Except he did something about it.
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JazzSteps.com

"Bake’s Place is really good for me as a pianist because it brings me very close to the audience," says [pianist George] Cables. "I get to talk to people and hang out with them as well, and it’s good for the audience because they can get close to the musician that they go to hear."
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Seattle Magazine: ORIGIN RECORDS SHOWCASE CONCERT

In an industry ruled by survival of the richest, jazz teeters on the edge of commercial viability. Even a major-label star like Wynton Marsalis is doing well if his CD sells more than several thousand copies.
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Seattle Spotlight: Bake's Place

Bake's Place Jazz and Blues Society, enveloped by evergreens and the pungent aroma of fresh cedar, is not only an innovative venue, but a musician's dream gig.
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