Hear one of Geri Allen’s earliest recordings, featured on a new album by the Howard University Jazz Ensemble
When the pianist Geri Allen, one of the most gifted musical pathfinders of her generation, died last year at...
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Tom Oren wins the 2018 Thelonious Monk competition
Tom Oren, a 24-year-old pianist from Tel Aviv, Israel, was named the winner on Monday of the 2018 Thelonious...
Hear the debut single from Akua Allrich and Kris Funn’s Idol Beings
Vocalist Akua Allrich and bassist Kris Funn have performed together for years around the D.C. jazz scene. Funn is...
Amy Bormet launches Into the Air, an intimate new concert series at a bookstore in downtown Hyattsville
When it comes to creating opportunities for her fellow working musicians, Amy Bormet has been more than willing to...
Alison Crockett celebrates the release of ‘Obrigada,’ an EP exploring Brazilian influences
The vocalist Alison Crockett is a one-woman powerhouse. You can hear the force of her entire body in the...
Drum innovator Milford Graves will make a rare D.C. appearance on Friday at the screening of ‘Milford Graves Full Mantis’
The drummer and polymath Milford Graves does not simply deal in rhythms and time, so much much as he...
Akua Allrich will celebrate 10 years of paying tribute to Miriam Makeba and Nina Simone
Akua Allrich performs with a rich, grounded vitality that often verges toward elation. She sings of hard love and...
Hillfest brings live jazz and much more to Capitol Hill this week
The Capitol Hill Jazz Foundation is teaming up this week with the DC Department of Parks and Recreation to...
Hear Mark G. Meadows cover ‘Superstition’ by Stevie Wonder
The pianist and vocalist Mark G. Meadows has been known as a leading young figure on D.C.’s music scene...
Ron Sutton, beloved D.C. saxophonist and ‘unsung hero,’ dies at 55
Ron Sutton, a beloved alto saxophonist and D.C. native, died at Washington Hospital Center on Sunday. He was 55....