Author: Bob Jacobson

Artist ProfilesConcert Reviews

Rhonda Robinson’s Story: From Engineering to Jazz

On October 20, as part of Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts’s Free Fall Baltimore series, vocalist/flautist Rhonda Robinson presented her new show, “Jazz Crept Into My Life.” The cabaret atmosphere of Eubie Blake Cultural Center’s fourth floor was ideal for a program that included storytelling as well as song, and the space was filled to near capacity. | Read more>> Read More
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Baltimore Jazz Photographer Jeffrey Kliman Honored by University of Pittsburgh

Baltimore-based jazz photographer Jeffrey Kliman says he is “aglow” and “a happy camper.” That’s because in October, University of Pittsburgh’s Hillman Library celebrated its newly purchased archive of Kliman’s work — over 52,000 negatives, 3,000 slides, 2,300 prints and proofs, and 1,000 contact sheets — primarily black and white images of jazz musicians, taken from 1986 to 2014. | Read more>> Read More