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Abie "Available" Baker was an American bass player, songwriter, and arranger based in New York.

Career

As session bassist in jazz from 1934 to 1960, he recorded with:

• Blanche Calloway
• Snub Mosley
• Herman Chittison
• Joey Thomas
• Titus Turner and the Howard Biggs Orchestra
• Dosie Terry
• John Greer
• George James and the Howard Biggs Orchestra
• Johnny Hartman and the Howard Biggs Orchestra
• Jimmy "Baby Face" Lewis
• Hadda Brooks
• Melvin Smith (vocalist)
• The Du-Droppers
• Annie Laurie
• Larry Darnell
• Ethel Ennis
• Jimmy Tyler
• Bobbie and Ronald (vocalists)
• Varetta Dillard
• Bill Doggett
• Little Willie John
• Ruth Brown
• King Curtis
• LaVern Baker
• Big Joe Turner
• Teddy Humphries
• Little Jimmy Scott
• Baby Boy Jennings & The Satellites

Forest Green Records and Worlds-Baker

New Forest Label NEW YORK — International Records Co. has announced the formation of Forest Green Records, headed by Abie Baker. First release: "It's All Over" b/w "I've Got a Secret," by Wanda Williams. Johnny Worlds handles East Coast promo, assisted by Chuck Star and Joe De Angelis.

Worlds-Baker, founded in 1968. Johnny Worlds was his partner.

Bibliography

References

• Billboard (January 27, 1968). "Worlds-Baker Consolidates Divisions Into Four Units". Vol. 80, , no. 4. p. 10. Retrieved December 4, 2020 – via Google Books. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

• Record World (June 5, 1965). "New Forest Label" (PDF). Vol. 19, , no. 939. p. 18. Retrieved December 17, 2020 – via americanradiohistory.com; David Frackelton Gleason (born 1946), Cleveland. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

• "Parker, Glenn". Who's Who in America. Vol. Vol. 33 (1964–1965). Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. p. 1544. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help) ISSN 0083-9396. LCCN 04-16934. OCLC 762324020, 4779260652.

• Trenholm, Virginia Cole (née Virginia Cole; 1902–1994) (ed.). "Parker, Glenn". Wyoming Blue Book (PDF). Vol. (1974). Vol. 3: 1943–1974. Cheyenne: Wyoming State Archives, Department of Commerce. pp. 29–30, 31, 32, 35 (biography), 41, 420, 424.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: editors list (link) LCCN 74-84379. OCLC 70920916.

• Jost, Loren K. (born 1947) (ed.). "Parker, Glenn". Wyoming Blue Book. Vol. (1991). Vol. 4: 1974–1990 – State Centennial & 50th Legislature Edition. Cheyenne: Wyoming State Archives, Department of Commerce. pp. 135 (biography), 142, 143.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: editors list (link)

Henry and Norman Mason

• Claghorn, Charles Eugene (1911–2005) (1982). Biographical Dictionary of Jazz. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. p. 196. Retrieved January 15, 2021 – via Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) ISBN 0-13-077966-0. LCCN 82-10409. OCLC 769095671.

• Chilton, John (1972) [1970]. "Mason, Norman". Who's Who of Jazz: Storyville to Swing Street (1st American ed.). Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company. p. 235. ISBN 0-8019-5705-2. LCCN 72-188159. OCLC 33999819.

• Kemp, Larry (né Kenneth Lawrence Kemp; born 1949) (2018). "Norman Kellog Mason (November 25, 1895 – )". Early Jazz Trumpet Legends. Series: Jazz Trumpet Legends. Vol. Vol. 1 of 3. Pittsburgh: Rose Dog Books. pp. 23–24. Retrieved January 15, 2021 – via Google Books. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) ISBN 1-4809-7637-7, 978-1-4809-7637-5, and 978-1-4809-7660-3 (e-book). OCLC 1059329912.