LYLE LINK REMEMBERS BUTCH WARREN
In October, saxophonist Lyle Link posted a very thoughtful and meaningful remembrance of bassist Butch Warren, who died October 5th, 2013 in Silver Spring, Maryland. The post was published on October 10th in CapitalBop.com. Read it here.
Lyle tells the story about first meeting Butch when playing at a jam session at Twins in DC, and about the valuable lessons he learned from Butch that night and later. | Read more>>
GARY BARTZ RETURNS TO PERFORM IN BALTIMORE
After a ten-year hiatus, alto saxophonist Gary Bartz returned to perform in Baltimore in September. Several hundred audience members jammed the pier of the Douglass-Myers Museum on Sunday, September 29th in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood to celebrate what turned out to be Baltimore’s first jazz festival in years. | Read more>>
BALTIMORE JAZZ COMPOSERS SHOWCASE – PHIL RAVITA – LISTEN
Audio track: “Sepia” by Phil Ravita
Phil Ravita‘s tune “Sepia” was commissioned by the BJA for the Baltimore Jazz Composers’ Showcase and performed by the showcase band at Loyola University on September 29, 2013. Phil says that the inspiration for the tune came to him while he was stuck in traffic downtown; he sang it into his cellphone. | Read more>>
BALTIMORE JAZZ COMPOSERS SHOWCASE – BRIAN SMITH – LISTEN
Brian Smith: “Different Spaces, Different Places”
On Sunday September 29th, ten compositions by ten Baltimore-area jazz composers were played by an ensemble of Baltimore-area jazz musicians at Loyola’s McManus Theater. The event was sponsored by the Baltimore Jazz Alliance, which awarded four of the composers a commission for creation of a brand-new jazz composition. | Read more>>
BJA and LEFT BANK JAZZ SOCIETY COLLABORATION
No one ever said it takes a village to make a jazz album, but that approach can do the trick, as a new Baltimore Jazz Alliance/Left Bank Jazz Society collaboration shows. An historic recording spent 45 years in the care of Left Bank members, who kept it dry, dark and safe. | Read more>>