CHICK WEBB RECREATION CENTER SLATED FOR MAJOR RENOVATION
A few blocks west of the Johns Hopkins Hospital stands a large gray building with red doors. Over 70 years ago, those doors opened the Chick Webb Recreation Center to the community. In 2017, a community group rescued the building from demolition and got it declared as a historical landmark. | Read more>>
R.I.P. HAROLD ADAMS, SAXOPHONIST AND BANDLEADER
On January 13 of 2021, saxophonist Harold Adams, passed away at age 79. He was a well-known figure in the Baltimore jazz scene, especially at the venerable Caton Castle. We share remembrances by several fans and fellow musicians who knew Adams. | Read more>>
Jazz in Theory and Practice
Back in the 1970s, as a young jazz enthusiast, I remember listening to pianist Victor Feldman playing in a club in Los Angeles and wondering, “What is he doing??” meaning, what is happening when he is improvising a solo? Where does he get the notes? | Read more>>
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>>