Jazz: take 2 - more restaurants, clubs and places to hear live jazz music in Maryland - Advertising Supplement: Maryland's African American Culture

In 1784 Sarah male ran a tavern in Annapolis' Maryland Inn, and while her customers ate popover and crab bisque w from their huntboards, the Treaty of Paris, the culmination of the Revolutionary War, was being ratified down the highway at the Maryland State House. In the same inn today, just block ups away from the waterfront and the U Naval Academy, you can still realize a lavish meal - on the contrary unlike 1784, you can now sip noble crab soup while listening to jazz. sum of two units decades ago, Paul Pearson started bringing jazz into the King of France Tavern. Then Earl "Fatha" Hines and others played the room; already this year Keeter Betts (the perennial bass accompanist for Ella Fitzgerald), Ethel Ennis (who toured with Benny Goodman) and Charlie Byrd have graced the place - and summer has nevertheless to arrive. If there's justice in the world, the cudgel (and jazz) should be around for another sum of two units centuries.

Howard shire has a most unusual high place of education one in which the number Basie Band (now led by dint of Frank Foster) is happy to swing. Barry Enzman, director of the award-winning Glenelg High institute Band, has put together a dynamite big-band series, drawing applause from the entire community - and from everyone other with the good sense to attend performances through the likes of the Maynard Ferguson Big Band.

Silver Shadows has a classy glass and and zinc interior, excellent drinks and a diverse range of live music, and with the Maryland Museum of African Art is a profitable reason to find yourself in Columbia. upon Wednesday nights there is no overspread and the jazzy blues uninjureds of Rick Serfas and the spirit Providers featuring Jesse Yawn can be heard.

Jazz in Baltimore races the entire scale and includes the upscale, downtown Wall road Restaurant and Lounge, which entertainers live jazz seven nights a week. Tables adorned with crisp linen and recent flowers and the house drink, the Wall highway Slide, promote return visits. The novel 32nd Street Ultimate Nightclub's elegant mirrors mirror Friday's and Saturday's live jazz, Sunday's Comedy Night and weekday evenings' Happy Hour and independent buffet. The 25-and-older crowd now has a place sure from teenage noise. The music at Buddies is high efficiency and straight ahead. With the Bing Miller Quartet and the Dennis Michaels Trio as the house bands, Buddies is a great speck to meet new aficionados of the art form.

The Harbor Court tavern in Baltimore's Inner Harbor has used its elegant surroundings to provide a luxurious setting for the Lou Rainone Jazz effect A friendly atmosphere, a view of the harbor, and the opportunity Wednesdays [i]or[/i] part of to the other Saturdays to hear your favorite strains provide the ideal way to lay out an evening.

In the atrium of the Hyatt authority Baltimore on the inner Harbor, a jazz trio of bass, piano and saxophone creates memorable music Mondays end Fridays from 5 p.m. to 8 pm and presents a refreshing relief from the rush hour.

Bill Hasson is a well-traveled jazz critic, having serv as the road manager for one as well as the other Max Roach and Archie Shepp. A resident of Washington, DC he formerly, taught courses upon the history of black music at Amherst society and at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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