Meet Ebban and Ephriam Dorsey. Two young saxophonists paving their way through the jazz scene,”Our music journey has always been like Baltimore, we started here and we’re still here.”
Jazz in Baltimore is not as uncommon as some people may think. Their inspiration came from the community and from inside their home, right here in Baltimore.
“Our parents were always playing music in the house,” said Ephriam Dorsey. “They would always play some gospel, R&B. And now that I look back at the stuff they were playing, they had some really deep music that they were playing. And everything was like really harmonically complex. So it was kind of conditioning our ears to be ready to be able to do this.”
They would both go on to the Baltimore School of the Arts.
Brian Tankersley Ebban found her love with the alto sax.
Ephriam plays the tenor.
After the BSA they went on to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, taking their music and education to a higher level.
“I feel like BSA was kind of like a college in itself,” Ebban said. “Like we were doing a lot of singing, like a lot of theory, a lot of classical and jazz. It definitely prepared me for just like the workload and a constant like sticking to a schedule and being persistent.”