Joe Baer Magnant is a professional musician and educator with over two decades of experience. His method book, The Guitarist’s Palette, is a comprehensive study guide that views the complexities of harmony through the guitarist's eyes.  

He has performed at venues such as The Great American Music Hall, Club Passim, and the SF Jazz Center, in addition to thousands of performances in the R&B, soul, jazz, blues, and rock genres. As a studio musician, he has recorded for Lugnut Brand Records (Oakland, CA), Funk Night Records (Detroit, MI), Raza Del Soul (San Jose, CA), and Fraternity Records (Cincinnati, OH), mainly with The Joe Baer Magnant Group, The M-Tet (mentioned in the definitive history of Daptone Records), and Chris Lujan.

Stylistically, his sound is unique and versatile. With a background split between classic soul/R&B, folk, and jazz, his sound can vary from dry and funky to ephemeral and dreamy while still maintaining a cohesive signature sound.

As an educator, he has taught for the Cape Conservatory and Symphony, is an International Baccalaureate music teacher, jazz band director, and choir director for Sturgis Public Charter School (a National Blue Ribbon School and one of Newsweek’s Top 50 Schools in The United States), and for eight years, was the owner of his own private instruction company, Baer’s Music Service in Berkeley, California. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music with a focus on Performance and Education.

Instruction offered: guitar, drums, piano, bass, saxophone, digital (DAW) production