Announcing... Christie Dashiell’s voice has been heard on records around the world. Hear it in person at CapitalBop’s next show. The last time Christie Dashiell sang at a CapitalBop presentation was Feburary 2020, at a special Valentine’s Day show... May 13, 2022 0
Announcing... Announcing the 7th Annual Jazz & Freedom Festival, a day of live music & activism benefiting Harriet’s Wildest Dreams Even before the #DontMuteDC movement sprang up in 2019, music and activism had long gone hand-in-hand in Washington, D.C.... February 4, 2022 0
Album reviews Best D.C. Jazz Albums of 2021 This has been a tough year, with just a few false starts of hope sprinkled in. We’re ending it... December 21, 2021 0
Album reviews Best D.C. Jazz Albums of 2020 Over the past 10 years on the D.C. jazz scene, we’ve seen venues come and go. We’ve seen elders... December 22, 2020 0
Album reviews Hear these four just-released D.C. jazz albums Fall 2020: We’re rounding the seventh month of a generation-defining pandemic; U.S. social and political tensions are coming to... October 30, 2020 0
Announcing... Introducing: Freedom Summer Sessions, a series of digital concerts and conversations with D.C. artists We find ourselves at a crossroads in the centuries-long struggle against racism and the state-sanctioned brutalizing of Black lives.... July 14, 2020 3
News Fred Foss, a saxophonist, educator and advocate for young musicians, dies at 70 Fred Foss spent the early years of his career touring with the likes of Lionel Hampton, Ray Charles and... April 25, 2019 0
Album reviews The Best D.C. Jazz Albums of 2018 It can now be said without any doubt that the D.C. jazz scene is a community of strength and... December 22, 2018 0
Album reviews The Best D.C. Jazz Albums of 2017 Editor’s note: Whoops. There’s no other way to say it: Here at CapitalBop we had a lean year in... December 22, 2018 0
Announcing... Nobody sings ‘jazz’ like Fay Victor. She’s our next Traveling Loft headliner. Few contemporary vocalists have internalized, personalized and redefined the Black music tradition as thoroughly as Fay Victor. If that... August 13, 2017 0