ARTS&LIFE
MUSIC

ark Lipson celebrates two very different 

and lengthy careers — jazz drummer 

and social worker.

While a student at Burton Elementary School in 
Huntington Woods, Lipson taught himself how to play his 
older brother’s drums and started getting work as a teen while 
attending Berkley High School. When later work was glittery 
but not steady, he became a social worker, was employed by 
the Rochester schools and set music as a sometime sideline.
Retirement from a 30-year career in schools brought Lipson 
back to drumming with the addition of arranging, and the 
pandemic brought about the realization of his second and 
third instrumental albums, Realism and Springwells, which he 
is releasing in concert.

Percussionist/composer Mark Lipson 
to play at the Congregation for 
Humanistic Judaism and the 
Detroit Jazz Festival.
JAZZ

SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Detroit

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54 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 

