#4 Kris Funn, ‘Bodega: The CornerStore Re-Imagined’
Bassist Kris Funn delivers a beautifully crafted soundtrack to city living on Bodega: The Cornerstore Re-imagined. The bodega...
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#5 Sarah Marie Hughes, ‘Coy Fish’
Sarah Marie Hughes’s debut album with her Coy Fish quartet is a nine-song offering that transports listeners into...
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...
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...
Christie Dashiell’s ‘Time All Mine’
Christie Dashiell’s Time All Mine is a smooth melding of the old and new. On her debut solo album,...
Mark G. Meadows’ ‘To the People’
On the title track of his third album, To the People, the pianist and vocalist Mark G. Meadows sings,...
David Schulman and Quiet Life Motel’s ‘Anhinga’
The role of the violin in contemporary music has always been challenging. Achieving virtuosity on it is one thing,...
Dwayne Adell’s ‘The Periodic Table of Tonal Elements’
Simply put, Dwayne Adell is genius. A true and singular genius, unlike any other person alive. He is a...
Tarus Mateen’s ‘Arising Saints’
Tarus Mateen is best known as a member of Jason Moran’s famous Bandwagon trio, but his bass playing has...
CapitalBop’s best D.C. jazz albums of 2016
D.C.’s jazz scene has long been a bastion of straight-ahead tradition, but these days it’s quickly expanding its definitions...