Sat May 31
Book Signing, Concert & Reception: A Jazz Romance by Earl Arnett
2PM / Free | Fees In-person Attendance
Earl Arnett: A Jazz Romance
A Jazz Romance: Ethel Ennis, Baltimore, and Me
Book Talk, Concert & Reception
Join Earl Arnett for the launch of his autobiography, A Jazz Romance: Ethel Ennis, Baltimore, and Me, on May 31, from 2-4:30 p.m. The program will begin with remarks by the author followed by an audience Q&A. Continue with a concert of Ethel Ennis’s signature love songs performed by Charenee Wade. The event will conclude with a reception and book-signing.
Over the course of his life, Earl Arnett has been a newspaperman, an arts critic, a cabaret owner, a cultural ambassador, and a professor. But the role he has loved most is that of husband to the late Ehtel Ennis, Baltimore’s First Lady of Jazz. From the time of their marriage in 1967—just months after the Supreme Court ruled laws banning interracial marriage unconstitutional—until her death in 2019, Arnett and Ennis were personally and professionally inseparable, devoting their lives to each other and to showcasing Ennis’s exceptional talent in forums from West Baltimore to China, Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. Along the way, they encountered—and in many cases befriended—fascinating characters from the realms of politics, show business, business, and the streets of their beloved Baltimore. Now, in A Jazz Romance, Arnett recounts episodes from that life with wit, incisive clarity, and the wounded wisdom of a widower still besotted with his beloved Ethel and the quietly epic life they lived.
The event is free but PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Register ASAP, as seating is limited.
This event is co-hosted by the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries & University Museums, the repository of the Ethel Ennis and Earl Arnett Collection.
2PM / Free | Fees In-person Attendance