Joey Baron


Bernard Joseph Baron is an American drummer best-known for working in avant-garde jazz with Bill Frisell and John Zorn.
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Music career

Baron, who is of Jewish heritage, was born on June 26, 1955, in Richmond, Virginia. When he was nine, he taught himself how to play the drums. As a teenager, he played in rock bands and dixieland jazz groups and was given his first gig opportunity at the age of 13 when pianist BJ Doyle's regular drummer took ill and she knew he was a keeper after just minutes. After high school, he spent a year at the Berklee College of Music. He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s and embarked on a professional career, playing with Carmen McRae and Al Jarreau. He worked as a freelance drummer and session musician with Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, and Hampton Hawes.
In 1982 he moved to New York City and joined guitarist Bill Frisell, with whom he would play often throughout his career. He also played in groups with Red Rodney, Fred Hersch, Enrico Pieranunzi, and Marc Johnson. Starting in the late 1980s, he became a bigger part of the avant-garde jazz scene when he played regularly at the Knitting Factory, recorded with singer Laurie Anderson, and began a long association with John Zorn. For several years he participated in Zorn's projects Naked City and Masada.
Baron contributed to David Bowie's Outside. Bowie would later praise Baron, stating: "Metronomes shake in fear, he's so steady."

Discography

As leader/co-leader

Tongue in Groove RAIsedpleasuredot Crackshot Down Home We'll Soon Find Out Killer Joey Beyond Venice, Dal Vivo Just Listen Live! with Irène SchweizerNow You Hear Me with Robyn Schulkowsky

As sideman

With John AbercrombieCat 'n' Mouse Class Trip The Third Quartet Wait Till You See Her Within a Song 39 Steps Up and Coming
With the Toshiko AkiyoshiTuttie Flutie European Memoirs Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio
With Laurie AndersonStrange Angels Bright Red The Ugly One with the Jewels Life on a String
With Tim BerneMiniature Tim Berne's Fractured Fairy Tales I Can't Put My Finger on It Diminutive Mysteries (Mostly Hemphill)
With David BowieOutside
With Jakob BroStreams
With Uri CaineUrlicht / Primal Light
With James CarterChasin' the Gypsy Heaven on Earth
With Anthony ColemanSephardic Tinge
With Dave DouglasIn Our Lifetime Stargazer Soul on Soul Freak In
With Eliane EliasSomething for You: Eliane Elias Sings & Plays Bill Evans
With Mark FeldmanSecrets
With Bill FrisellLookout for Hope Before We Were Born Is That You? Where in the World? Have a Little Faith This Land Go West: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton The High Sign/One Week Live
With Fred FrithAllies
With Richard GallianoLaurita
With Jim Hall
With Fred HerschHorizons Sarabande The French Collection The Surrounding Green
With Haino KeijiAn Unclear Trial: More Than This
With Marc JohnsonThe Sound of Summer Running Shades of Jade Swept Away
;With Lee Konitz
With Steve KuhnRemembering Tomorrow Mostly Coltrane Wisteria with Steve Swallow
With Joe LovanoFlights of Fancy: Trio Fascination Edition Two Sound Prints
With Pat MartinoThe Return
With Carmen McRaeLive at Ronnie Scott's At the Great American Music Hall
With Mark MurphyBeauty and the Beast
With Gary PeacockNow This Tangents
With Enrico PieranunziNew Lands Deep Down Play Morricone Current Conditions Play Morricone 2 Ballads Live in Japan As Never Before
With Hank RobertsBlack Pastels
With Herb RobertsonTransparency X-Cerpts: Live at Willisau Shades of Bud Powell
With John ScofieldGrace Under Pressure
With Julian SiegelLive at the Vortex
With John TaylorRosslyn
With Toots ThielemansOnly Trust Your Heart Do Not Leave Me
With Roseanna VitroThe Time of My Life: Roseanna Vitro Sings the Songs of Steve Allen
With John ZornThe Big Gundown Spy vs Spy Naked City with Naked CityTorture Garden with Naked CityGrand Guignol with Naked CityHeretic with Naked CityLeng Tch'e with Naked CityRadio with Naked CityAbsinthe with Naked CityMasada: Alef with MasadaMasada: Beit with MasadaMasada: Gimel with MasadaMasada: Dalet with MasadaMasada: Hei with MasadaMasada: Vav with MasadaFilmworks III: 1990–1995 Masada: Zayin with MasadaMasada: Het with MasadaMasada: Tet with MasadaMasada: Yod with MasadaFilmworks IV: S&M + More New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands The Circle Maker Black Box with Naked CityTaboo & Exile Live in Jerusalem 1994 with MasadaLive in Taipei 1995 with MasadaLive in Middelheim 1999 with MasadaLive in Sevilla 2000 The Gift Live at Tonic 2001 with MasadaNaked City Live, Vol. 1: The Knitting Factory 1989 with Naked CityFirst Live 1993 with Masada50th Birthday Celebration Volume 4 with Electric Masada50th Birthday Celebration Volume 7 with MasadaNaked City: The Complete Studio Recordings with Naked CityElectric Masada: At the Mountains of Madness with Electric Masada50th Birthday Celebration Volume 11 with Bar Kokhba SextetSanhedrin 1994–1997 with MasadaMoonchild: Songs Without Words with Moonchild TrioAstronome with Moonchild TrioSix Litanies for Heliogabalus with Moonchild TrioThe Crucible with Moonchild TrioLucifer: Book of Angels Volume 10 with Bar Kokhba SextetThe Dreamers with The DreamersStolas: Book of Angels Volume 12 with Masada QuintetO'o with The DreamersIpsissimus with MoonchildIpos: Book of Angels Volume 14 with The DreamersNova Express with the Nova QuartetAt the Gates of Paradise A Dreamers Christmas with The DreamersTemplars: In Sacred Blood with MoonchildA Vision in Blakelight The Concealed Dreamachines with the Nova QuartetThe Last Judgement with MoonchildOn Leaves of Grass with the Nova QuartetPellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula with The DreamersAndras: The Book Of Angels Volume 28 with Nova Express Quintet

Filmography