With intrepid new one-woman show, Alison Crockett works to ‘start the conversation’ about our divided America
Alison Crockett performs this Sunday at Blues Alley. In Is This It? My American Dream, the one-woman show that...
Category: Features
Duke Ellington’s 115th birthday with Terry Teachout, author of Duke: A Life (AUDIO)
Today marks the 115th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s birth. Ellington, who grew up in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood and learned...
The Clayton Brothers bring special synergy to Bethesda Blues & Jazz this Sunday
Look around the jazz world and you’ll find bands of brothers: the Heath Brothers and the Brecker Brothers made...
Appreciation | Lessons from Mr. Warren
Editor’s note: Lyle Link posted this remembrance on Facebook earlier this week. The sensitivity, thoughtfulness and sincere humility that...
Musician profile | Baltimore native Cyrus Chestnut relishes his gift — and passes it on to students
Cyrus Chestnut performs at the Hamilton during the DC Jazz Festival. Along the way, he is spotlighting six of his most talented students.
Explorations of sonic personalities: a brief introduction to Nicole Mitchell’s Ice Crystal
With Nicole Mitchell's formula, honest music made by honest musicians, the resulting sound is depth by default.
Heidi Martin, an under-appreciated D.C. vocalist, challenges through introspection
Editor’s note, 9.21.15: We’re reposting this profile of Heidi Martin in advance of her shows this weekend at the...
Musician profile | Akua Allrich: Uniquely Akua
The vocalist Akua Allrich has been attracting attention over the past few years for her emotionally and spiritually charged...
Artist profile | Afro Bop Alliance sets jazz alight with the energy of Latin rhythms
by Ken Avis CapitalBop contributor Remember the Smithsonian Jazz Café? If so, you probably remember the Afro Bop Alliance;...
Photos | From Oz to D.C., with love: The District’s jazz scene, through the lens of an outsider
During his visit from Australia this summer, the award-winning, Canberra-based photographer Ray Strange hung out around the jazz bars...