[4] Bob Hope once told an interviewer his favorite jazz singer was "Little ol' Ann Baker.

Ecksteine's band included jazz legends Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Art Blakey, and Dexter Gordon, throughout the years she performed with Eckstine.

"[3][8] In the late 1940s, Baker retired in Charleston, West Virginia, where she married barbecue restaurateur Delaney "Wag" Wagner.

[3] Prior to her death, Baker had been in St. Francis Hospital in August 1999, undergoing surgery to remove a benign lung tumor.

[4] In 2008, Baker was posthumously inducted into the West Virginia Musician Hall of Fame.