Bob Baldwin, a well-known independent musician, has a long list of credits as a musician, arranger, songwriter and producer of smooth jazz music. Since 1988, Baldwin has released ten albums, including his latest project, “All In A Day’s Work,” and has sold more than 200,000 units as an independent artist. His albums have featured saxophonist Gerald Albright, Grammy Award-winning singer Will Downing, drummer Joel Rosenblatt of Spyro Gyra, saxophonist Marion Meadows, Grammy-Award winning saxophonist Grover Washington Jr., singer Phil Perry, legendary vibraphonist Roy Ayers, and jazz bassist Gerald Veasley.
His writing, producing and arranging talents have also been used for albums by George Benson, Melba Moore, Freddie Jackson, Grover Washington Jr., and for two songs on Will Downing’s Grammy-nominated album,
“All The Man You Need.” He’s also composed the music for the jingles on CD101.9, the New York smooth jazz radio station located in the No. 1 jazz music market in the radio industry.
Baldwin’s passion for music was nurtured as a child, under the influence of his father, noted jazz pianist Bob Baldwin Sr. Since the age of four, Baldwin indulged in the sounds of his generation, listening and emulating the music of Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. He graduated from Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Penn., with a bachelor’s in business administration and a minor in broadcast communications.
In 1989, he entered a music industry competition judged by R&B singer Roberta Flack (“Killing Me Softly”) and won the prestigious Sony Innovator Award for his work on the album, “A Dream featuring Bob Baldwin.” Shortly after, he signed his first deal with Atlantic Jazz and released two albums that reached the top ten and top twenty on the Billboard Music Charts
for jazz music.
In 1995, he pursued music distribution through his own company, City Sketches, using his website to sell 7,000 units of his first independently produced project, “City Sketches I/Welcome to the Games.” He released six more albums including his latest project, and has toured nationally, performing mostly recently in Inglewood, Ca., with Grammy Award-winning record artist Regina Belle (“A Whole New World” duet with Peabo Bryson for the “Aladdin” music soundtrack) and with Pieces of a Dream and saxophonist Marion Meadows at the Croton Point Park Music Fest.