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
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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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