Edythe Baker

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Edythe Baker (August 3, 1895, Missouri - November 22, 1965) was an American pianist.

Baker was classically trained, and moved to New York City in 1919. There she made piano rolls (for Aeolian and Duo-Art) between 1919 and 1925; these included ragtime and pop pieces. She worked on Broadway in musicals and performed with vaudeville troupes such as the Ziegfeld Follies.

In 1927 Baker relocated to England, and recorded 22 pieces between 1927 and 1933. She became a star there after appearing in revues in 1928, and worked the cabaret circuit there through much of the 1930s. She married into a banking family, and left the music business after the early 1940s.

A selection of her piano rolls were reissued on an album released by Folkways Records in 1983.

[edit] References

• Scott Yanow, Edythe Baker at All Music Guide
• Article from the American Musical Instrument Collectors' Association, 1971