No one ever said it takes a village to make a jazz album, but that approach can do the trick, as demonstrated by a collaboration between Baltimore Jazz Alliance and the historic Left Bank Jazz Society. A recording of Baltimore’s hottest show on one cold January night in 1966 spent 45 years in the care […]
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“Passing the Axe,” a Baltimore jazz history chapter
Recently I was lucky enough to re-visit Baltimore jazz in my writing as I contributed a chapter to a new history book. My essay, “Passing the axe : the Baltimore saxophone tradition,” appears in Music at the Crossroads, published by Loyola University’s Apprentice House press. As the founding newsletter editor for the Baltimore Jazz Alliance, it was a […]