Apr 30 Tuesday
Join the Charles Rahmat Woods Ensemble at An die Musik Live for a concert of original music and arrangements of music composed by Jazz artists who have Native American Indian heritage, including trumpeter Don Cherry, saxophonist Jim Pepper, bassist Oscar Pettiford, pianist Larry Redhouse, poet/saxophonist Joy Harjo, and others.
Livestream passes and student tickets available!
Charles Rahmat Woods, Jazz flute/saxophone/bandleaderEmory Diggs, bassPeter Frassrand, pianoGus Johnson, drumsplus special guests
CHARLES ‘RAHMAT’ WOODS has performed on flute or saxophone with Roy Haynes, Helen Humes, Don Cherry, Tarika Blue, Conjunto Peligro, Jean Paul Bourelly, David Ornette Cherry, Lafayette Gilchrist, Bobby Thomas Butterfly Band, Mosaic of Sound (DC), and other great artists. He has appeared with his own ensembles on radio and television broadcasts, and at a number of distinguished performance spaces and live-stream platforms. His theme music was used for the syndicated Native American cable TV show “Four Winds”. His groundbreaking use of ‘wah-wah’ pedal flute on his song “Look What You Done to Me”, recorded by singer Sheila Skipworth, was used in the major feature film “Something New” starring acclaimed actress Sanae Latham. His recording “Eleven Fifty Nine” was featured in the PBS documentary “July ‘64” by award winning film maker Carvin Eison. A native of Buffalo NY and longtime resident of the Washington DC Metropolitan area, his latest recording on the Rahmat Shabazz label is “Blues For Martyrs”.
In-person seats: $25 / $10 studentsIn-person attendees receive a link to the recording to view for one week.
Streaming passes: $15The link will be sent out 15 minutes before the show and will remain active through May 7
Donations Welcome
Celebrate International Jazz Day AND the 5th Anniversary of Keystone Korner Baltimore this coming April 30th with Charles Funn & The Funn Band as they play the music of Duke Ellington!
The true “King of Swing”, and one of the greatest composers and creative forces, Duke Ellington was one of the originators of big-band jazz. Ellington led his band for more than half a century, composed thousands of scores, and created one of the most distinctive ensemble sounds in all of Western music.--Charles Funn, a graduate of Morgan Stage College is a retired band instructor (44 years) with the BCPSS. In addition to being a music instructor, he was and is a practicing professional musician having played behind and with Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Sammy Davis Jr., Gladys Knight, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Dells, Clark terry, Dizzy Gillespie, The Morgan State university Concert & Jazz Bands and The Howard University Jazz Ensemble.
Charles awards include numerous Mayoral Citations, Jazz Journalist’s Association Jazz Hero Award for 2015, The Benny Golson Jazz Masters Award for 2018 presented by Howard University and The Baltimore Jazz Alliance Award for 2022. He currently performs with Dr. Phil Butts Big Band, Bowie State University Community Jazz Ensemble, The New World Outreach Jazz Orchestra, The Clarence Knight Orchestra and The Charles Funn Big Band. Funn started, trained and developed countless future musicians as he nurtured and guided the musical development of Baltimore’s youth.
May 03 Friday
MGQuintet comes to An die Musik Live featuring the Gross Brothers celebrating the music of Eddie Jefferson and Cannonball Adderley along with other standards and originals. Two shows at 7pm and 9pm, livestream passes and student tickets available!
Mark Gross - alto saxophoneVincent Gross - trpt/vocalAllyn Johnson - pianoArk Ovrutski - bassJerome Gillespie - drums
MGQuintet is a jazz ensemble in the tradition of hard bop jazz. MGQ will feature a stellar ensemble with an amazing rhythm section featuring the great Allyn Johnson on piano, Ark Ovrutski on bass and young phenom Jerome Gillespie on drums, Vincent Gross on vocals and trumpet, led by altoist Mark Gross.
Please join us for an enjoyable evening of beautiful music.
In-person seats: $30 / $10 studentsAttendees receive a link to the recording to view for one week.
Streaming Cost is $15The link will be sent out 15 minutes before the show and will remain active thru Jan. 26
After four decades of featured background singing with icons like Luther Vandross, The Rolling Stones, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, and Nine Inch Nails, MS. LISA FISCHER set out to take center stage with her own humble, heartfelt song. The 2013 Best Documentary Oscar winning film “Twenty Feet from Stardom” altered the course of Lisa’s musical journey, telling her story, with clips of her legendary duets with Sting or with Mick Jagger on “Gimme Shelter”, left audiences eager to see and hear more, so Lisa took the chance to set out on her own reinventing classic songs with her co-conspirators JC Maillard and Grand Baton. Their organic fusion of Caribbean psychedelic soul and jazzy progressive rock ignited Lisa’s flexibility and freedom of expression, awakening her lifelong desire to make music that heals but still rocks the house.
While Lisa’s range is legendary, her greatest gift is the ability to connect, to reach the hearts of her listeners. Raised in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, she emerged from New York’s fervent studio scene in the early 1980s, sang for two decades with legendary vocalist Luther Vandross, and released “So Intense”, earning her first Best R&B Performance Grammy with “How Can I Ease The Pain”. She joined the Rolling Stones for their 1989 Steel Wheels tour, and continued to grace their stage for the next 26 years. Lisa’s passion for constant growth and experimentation with different styles invited recent collaborations with jazz pianist Taylor Eigsti, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Michael McDonald, Eric Krasno, Talib Kweli, Billy Childs and YoYo Ma, the BBC Proms / Jules Buckley and the Metropole Orkest, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Anna Deavere Smith’s “Notes from the Field” for HBO, and especially her full evening program The Classic Lisa Fischer with Grand Baton and Seattle Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony and the National Philharmonic.
May 04 Saturday
Join the Melodic Intersect Trio at An die Musik Live, featuring Hidayat Hussain Khan, Greg Hatza and Enayet Hossain! Two Shows at 7 pm & 8:30 pm!
The world class musicians of Melodic Intersect seamlessly blend jazz, Indian classical, folk, rock and hip-hop music. This collaboration was conceived in 2008 by tabla maestro Enayet Hossain, who brought together some of the most accomplished Indian and Western musicians on the planet, blending different backgrounds, genres and styles.
Melodic Intersect was inspired by legendary bands such as Shakti and John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra. The group’s Incredible musicianship and an innovative approach have led to extraordinary performances at top U.S. venues such as Lincoln Center, dates in many other countries, and chart topping world music albums.
In-person seats: $25 / $10 studentsAttendees receive a link to the recording to view for one week.
Streaming passes: $15The link will be sent out 15 minutes before the show and will remain active through May 11
May 05 Sunday
Please join the Peabody Children's Chorus for “A Branch of May” featuring music by Felix Mendelssohn Susan LaBarr and Andre Thomas as well as music from Macedonia Japan Canada and Indonesia.
Both concerts are on May 5 at 11:30 a.m. and at 3:30 p.m.
Location: Shriver Hall, JHU Homewood 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21218
Get your tickets here (copy and paste the link below into your browser)https://peabodyinstitute.thundertix.com/events/223893
Live in concert are Alasdair Fraser, “the Michael Jordan of Scottish fiddling,” and brilliant cellist Natalie Haas. With renowned virtuosity and joyful spontaneity, their cutting-edge string explorations span intimate chamber music, energetic dance music, traditional Scottish folk songs, and global tunes. Come see (and hear!) why the duo’s debut recording, Fire & Grace, won the coveted Scots Trad Music Album of the Year award, the Scottish equivalent of a GRAMMY.