City Life On South Broad, Former Lippincott Mansion Hits the Right Note Stacia Friedman takes us inside one of South Broad Street's most mysterious and magnificent historic ...
History The Rise, Fall, & Revival Of North Broad’s Opera Palace Rob McClung takes us on a journey through the turbulent history and present reawakening of the mighty Metropolitan Opera House at Broad and ...
History On Spruce Street, A Symphony Of Fading History Contributor Rob McClung opens the door of 1617 Spruce, where the Philadelphia Musical Academy once filled the street with the sounds of classical ...
History Incubating Philly Jazz Talent At Music City Music City on Chestnut Street was the spot for aspiring jazz musicians in the 1950s. Famous players like Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Stan Getz would often take time out from gigging in town to ...
History At Liberty Place, The Ghost Of Hot Jazz Long before One Liberty Place leveled the area with sky-high apartments and upscale shopping, Ranstead Street used to belong to Billy Krechmer. His little jazz club burned with Swing and Dixieland brass for over 28 ...
Preservation At Laurel Hill, An 1830 Music Room Lives On Thought all the vestiges of the Bicentennial were gone? Not this--a nearly 40 year old music series at Laurel Hill ...
History Three Centuries Of Song In Philadelphia Quaker influence kept the volume turned way down on early Philadelphia's musical output. The consecration of Old Swedes' Church in July 1700 changed that, and as Jack McCarthy writes, that first documented musical performance included ...
History Remembering the Downbeat: 1940s Progressive Philly Jazz Club A show at the Society Hill Playhouse and a series of weekly happy hours at the Gershwin Y bring Dizzy Gillespie back into the spotlight. Jack McCarthy profiles Dizzy's years in Philadelphia and the Downbeat ...
