The Johns Hopkins Billie Holiday Center for the Liberation Arts holds its sixth annual Jazz in the Square concert event, Saturday, September 7, 2024, from 2:00 to 6:00 pm EDT at Lafayette Square, Lafayette and Arlington streets, in West Baltimore. Once again, Peabody faculty artists are featured performers: Nasar Abadey and his quartet, featuring Sean […]
Trombonist, composer and Peabody Jazz graduate student Spencer Merk—winner of the U.S. Naval Academy Band’s 2023 Call for Scores competition for “Perry’s Ferry”— leads a combo of his Jazz Studies peers for the first installment of our weekly Friday Noon:30 Recital Series. Merk is joined by fellow second-year graduate students Emerson Borg (trumpet, flugelhorn) and Andrew […]
The Venezuelan Jazz Collective, led by Jazz Faculty Fran Vielma, performs at Blues Alley Jazz Club on Wednesday, October 2 at 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm. The star-studded ensemble will perform the East Coast premiere of "Common Grounds," a suite commissioned by Chamber Music America-New Jazz Works that explores the rich connection between Venezuelan music […]
