‘Every time something happened I found myself at the piano’: Elijah Jamal Balbed takes ‘Karma Suite’ to Kennedy Center
When Elijah Jamal Balbed premiered the “The Karma Suite,” his first long-form composition, at the final Union Arts D.C....
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5 jazz picks for January in D.C.
Happy New Year! Lots of great music is happening in the District in the third decade of the millennium,...
Ken Avis isn’t a doctor, but he plays the ‘Antidote’ on the radio
Ken Avis is perhaps best known as a guitarist in the worldly jazz group Veronneau, but he has always...
Islam’s impact on modern jazz takes center stage at the Smithsonian
How do you create jazz programming that truly honors the spiritual dimensions of the holidays, despite the heavily commercialized nature...
Guitarist Evgeny Pobozhiy wins the 2019 Herbie Hancock jazz competition
Guitarist Evgeny Pobozhiy, 30, was declared the winner of the 2019 Herbie Hancock International Jazz Competition on Tuesday at...
5 December D.C. jazz picks
Happy holidays! The holiday-themed concert season is upon us, and familiar faces and beloved traditions return to the District...
The restaurant Harlot DC is now open in the Bohemian Caverns building
Harlot DC, one of two new ventures to be housed in the historic Bohemian Caverns building, is now open....
A new Nat King Cole boxed set contains a piece of D.C. music history
A just-released boxed set of music from the early career of Nat King Cole reveals that he once wrote...
5 November D.C. jazz picks
There are five gigs with a CapitalBop starred pick on our D.C. Jazz Calendar for Nov. 1; if that’s not...
How Braxton Cook found his voice (literally) and became a rising star in jazz
Saxophonist Braxton Cook seemed to be following the recognizable trajectory of a young D.C. jazz musician — then he...