Tedd Baker has worked with a wide variety of jazz greats and contemporary artists including Barry Harris, David Sanborn, Arturo Sandoval, Slide Hampton, Eddie Daniels, Victor Lewis, Jason Moran, Wycliffe Gordon, Kurt Elling, Fitz and The Tantrums, Sean Jones, Michael Mossman, Warren Wolf, The 8-Bit Big Band, Ryles Jazz Orchestra with Jon Faddis, Artie Shaw Orchestra, and Donny McCaslin among others. He has also recorded with David Sanborn, Bobby Caldwell (“After Dark”), New York Voices (“Let It Snow”), Bohemian Caverns All-Stars, Amina Figarova Sextet, and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra under the direction of David Baker.

Teddy Baker began playing professionally around Boston’s Back Bay, North End, and downtown in his teens. In 2000 he won the Hilton Head Jazz Society Competition and led a quartet of past awardees. In 2001 he toured 8 weeks in South America, Central America, and Jamaica for the State Department Jazz Ambassador Program as part of the Richard Johnson trio. In 2002 he joined the Airmen of Note, USAF Band, Washington, D.C. Tedd Baker’s recordings “Mugshots,” and “Duos Vol. 1” received rave reviews from JazzTimes, All About Jazz, and The Washington Post. Baker is also featured on recordings such as steelpan/composer Victor Provost’s “Bright Eyes,” the Taylor/ Fidyk Big Band “Live At Blues Alley,” Ben Patterson Jazz Orchestra’s “Vital Frequencies feat Chris Potter, and Groove Junkies,” guitarist Paul Pieper’s “Making Time,” Jon Steele’s “Decades” featuring Vinnie Colaiuta and Kevin Hays, and The Young Lions “Live At Bohemian Caverns.”

An avid believer in educating the next generation, Baker has served as an adjunct professor of saxophone at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, University of the Virgin Islands, SUNY New Paltz (State University of New York), and Morgan State University Baltimore (substitute professor), and has conducted masterclasses and guest artist/clinician performances throughout the US, Central and South America, and the Caribbean at high schools, universities, and conferences including American University, Shephard University School of Music, Howard University, Shenandoah University-National Jazz Workshop, Berklee College of Music, University of North Texas (UNT Jazz), Midwest Clinic Conference (2022), Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival (2019), Universidad Centroamericana-El Salvador, Capitol University-Columbus, OH (2019), Valdosta State University, GA (2019), PASIC-Percussive Arts Society International Convention (w/Johnny Vidacovich Trio, 2017), and the Jazz Education Network Convention (2014, 2018).

“a grandly talented improviser” – Allaboutjazz.com

“It was a powerful reminder that Baker is one of the best—in a seemingly bottomless well of great musicians.” – Washington CityPaper (Jazz Festival Review)

“big muscular tone and perpetually moving lines produce hard-bop improvisations that grab the listener’s interest and generate intense emotion” -JazzTimes

“The highlight came in between, however, via tenor saxophonist Tedd Baker’s opulent, haunting arrangement of the standard “Autumn in New York.” – The Washington Post