- Baker composed this work for violin and piano in 1968.1 It was published in 1991.2
- Baker adapted this work from a movement in his choral work Psalm 22:3 A Modern Jazz Oratorio (1966)4
- Baker composed this work to commemorate the death of his father, who passed in 1964.5
Sources
- Monika Herzig et al, David Baker: A Legacy in Music (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011), 335.
- David Baker, Blues (Deliver My Soul) for Violin and Piano (St. Louis, MO: Keiser Southern Music, 1991).
- Mark Clague, liner notes to Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composer, Rachel Barton Pine, Matthew Hagle, Cedille 182, CD, 2018.
- Herzig et al, David Baker: A Legacy in Music, 346.
- Ibid., 51.
Cut IDs
22482