MITCH MIRKIN’S NEW ALBUM LINKS CULTURES
This album, inspired by the old synagogue that was once home to Mishkan Israel congregation and is now occupied by a Seventh-Day Adventist congregation, reflects on “the inevitability of change, evolution, transformation,” as Mirkin puts it. The seven tunes on the album traverse cultures with various grooves and styles that often switch within a tune. | Read more>>
The Joni Chronicles Returns
The legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, now 75, is
rarely performing, but she has made an indelible impression not only on her own
but also on later generations. Hers is an ever-challenging oeuvre, with her
innovative excursions into and mingling of genres and her probing, elliptical,
wry, poetic lyrics. | Read more>>
Iyoel Santiago: Drummer in Three Genres
The list of musicians who come from musical families is long, even within our own Baltimore jazz community. Another local musician who arose from a musical family and has been gaining visibility on the Baltimore jazz scene is drummer, percussionist, guitarist and singer Iyoel (EE-YOH-EL) Santiago. | Read more>>
NEW (and not-so-new) JAZZ VENUES IN BALTIMORE
Baltimore is blessed with a long list of venues providing live jazz of all types, as can be seen from the jazz calendar and on our web page, “Where’s the jazz?” But new venues are turning up all the time. And some old venues aren’t as well-known as they should be. | Read more>>
Joni Mitchell Revisited at Jazzway 6004
“Moons and Junes and ferris wheels, the dizzy, dancing way you feel….” “And the sun came in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses…..” “They paved Paradise, put up a parking lot….”
Who of us born before 1970 doesn’t recall those memorable Joni Mitchell lyrics? | Read more>>