Introducing BJA Member Grants
The Baltimore Jazz Alliance has sponsored and cosponsored many different projects over its 16-plus years: 3 CDs, the Saxophone Colossi, the Jazz Composers Showcase, the BJA Big Band, the Youth Jazz Congress, the Jazz for Kids educational programs, the Baltimore Realbook, various Jazz Appreciation Month celebrations, the Baltimore Jazz Fest, the Madonnari Arts Festival, Summer Music Moves, the Baltimore Jazz Conference, and much more. | Read more>>
Music in the Time of Coronavirus: Word from the Digital Frontier
During the uncertain spring of 2020, artists are doing
everything they can to stay on their audiences’ minds—and put some money in
their pockets. Luckily, there are now more new ways musicians can retain and
even find new audiences, as well as stay active and musically connected during
the shutdown. | Read more>>
Jazz in Baltimore’s Public Art (part 3)
In part 1 and part 2 of this series we presented jazz-themed art in and around the Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts & Entertainment District and Billie Holiday-themed art in Upper Fells Point. Here are more pieces of jazz-themed art from other locations around Baltimore City. | Read more>>
Jazz in Baltimore’s Public Art (part 2)
As we reported in the May 2014 issue of the BJA newsletter, on April 5, 2014, between 600 and 800 people turned out for the celebration of Billie Holiday sponsored by the Upper Fells Point Improvement Association. The community organization had secured a $30,000 grant from PNC Bank and spent the funds on art work celebrating the singer on the very block where she grew up, the 200 block of S.Durham | Read more>>
Jazz in Baltimore’s Public Art (part 1)
Baltimore City has hundreds
of murals, with local and world renowned jazz figures appearing in dozens of
them. As you will see in this three-part series, jazz is also represented in
other forms of the city’s public art.
One of the two major clusters of jazz-themed public art is the newly-designated Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts and Entertainment District. | Read more>>