I wanna share this link with everyone...I just discovered this site tonight while researching some old Baltimore lore. It's called:
Sounds and Stories
The Musical Life of Maryland's African-American Communities
http://webdrive.jhsph.edu/eschaaf/sas/index.html
It's full of interviews of musicians and people associated with the Baltimore music scene since way back. I'm thrilled to have found this as some of these folks I remember well and played with. I always thought that it's a tragedy that so many stories never get told and so finding this was a real shot in the arm. I just got through reading the interview with Henry Baker and Reppard Stone. Henry Baker ran a club called "The Closet" that I played at for years when I was living in Baltimore. I met a lot of great musicians there. Bob Berg and Tom Harrell, Gary Bartz, Clifford Jordan. I even got to sit in with Woody Shaw one night. Henry has stories that go back to his days hanging with Lester Young and Charlie Parker. It's a ball to read some of them here:
http://webdrive.jhsph.edu/eschaaf/sa...alhistory.html
There's also an interview with Ruth Binsky. Her husband ran a club called "The Bandstand", another place I played at. In fact, I once sat in with Pepper Adams and Philly Joe Jones there when I was about 19.
http://webdrive.jhsph.edu/eschaaf/sa...alhistory.html
There's a bunch more that I haven't yet read...
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