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admin November 2, 2012November 20, 2012 1 Comment Baltimore, Eubie Blake Center, Hugh Masekela, jazz, Larry Willis

Hugh Masekela Makes Jazz History At Eubie Live!

by Andrew Zaleski The scariest thing about Hugh Masekela is that he almost gave up the trumpet. He had been playing for four years when he first listened to Clifford Brown, a trumpet king in the 1950s, and thought there was no hope for a boy from South Africa to blow a horn the way Brown could. | Read more>> Read More

Live reviews

admin August 10, 2012October 2, 2012 0 Comments Baltimore, Baltimore Jazz Alliance, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Eubie Blake, Eubie Blake Center, jazz

Ready, Able and Intent at Eubie Live!

by Trish Hennessey When I arrived at the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center at 847 N. Howard Street, I didn’t feel the air-conditioning. June 13th was decidedly summer-like, and the thought crossed my mind that there were going to be some seriously sweaty musicians at this jam! | Read more>> Read More

Live reviews

admin August 10, 2012October 2, 2012 2 Comments Baltimore, Baltimore Jazz Alliance, Billy Williams, Freddie Hubbard, jazz, Joe Henderson, Larry Willis, live review, Steve Novosel, Tommy Williams

Tribute to Joe Henderson and Freddie Hubbard

by Liz Fixsen and Gail Marten On Sunday, June 10th, The Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center was the site of a tribute concert organized by jazz presenter Mike Binsky. Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, two giants of jazz from the 1950s through the 1980s, were celebrated by a quintet headed by Javon Jackson on tenor, and including Baltimore native Tommy Williams on trumpet, Larry Willis on piano, Steve Novosel on bass, and Billy Williams on drums. | Read more>> Read More

Features

admin June 19, 2012October 2, 2012 0 Comments Baltimore, Baltimore Jazz Alliance, Dennis Chambers, Gary Thomas, Herbie Hancock, jazz, Peabody Institute

Gary Thomas: Peabody Improvisation and Multimedia Ensemble

by Andrew Zaleski You couldn’t hear Gary Thomas in the back of the Peabody Conservatory’s East Room on this particular Wednesday night. The founding director of the jazz studies program has a softspoken, if deep, voice. That was but a minor inconvenience on May 2nd, when the focus of the night was the occasion being celebrated—ten years since the inception of Peabody’s jazz studies concentration—and the rather large, twenty-member-plus Improvisation and Multimedia Ensemble assembled at the front of the room. | Read more>> Read More