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Over Memorial Day weekend (May 30th), the Baltimore jazz community lost one of its best, most versatile musicians, guitarist and vocalist Jim Podgurski. He died at age seventy six. Podgurski had come full circle. He grew up in Dundalk and had bought a home there just over one year ago. | Read more>> Read More

By Seth Kibel, with an introduction by Bob Jacobson Seth Kibel is one of the mid-Atlantic’s best-known woodwind players — a triple threat on clarinet, saxes and flute — and master of genres including jazz, klezmer and R&B.  He has won numerous awards from the Washington Area Music Association. | Read more>> Read More

Phil Dorsey, of TheBocX.com, gave a talk at the Oct. 16, 2021 jazz conference put on the the Baltimore Jazz Alliance. This article is a condensation of that talk:   You got your latest and greatest down, as perfect as you can get it, (it can always be better) and yes, recorded!  | Read more>> Read More

Near the intersection of Pennsylvania and Lafayette Avenues in West Baltimore, there stands an ornamental replica of the marquee of the storied Royal Theater.  A short distance away stands the statue by Black sculptor James Earl Reid (1942-2021) of Baltimore’s hometown jazz diva  Billie Holiday in a full-throated pose, a half-block away from the Royal Theater’s original location.  | Read more>> Read More