About Global Jazz Club

In May of 1860, the cornerstone of Arlington Street Church, the first public building in Boston’s newly-filled Back Bay, was laid. “We have come to what seems to be a desolate spot,” said Dr. Gannett to his congregation. “But in a few years, it will be found to be the one best for us, and we hope to see other edifices near….” They had brought with them, he affirmed, “not the walls of the old edifice, but what is better—the unseen element of life which has invigorated them.”