The pianist Marcus Johnson makes highly danceable smooth jazz, with strong inflections of funk. He frequently indulges in pop covers, and is arguably the city’s best-known smooth jazz musician.

The pianist Marcus Johnson makes highly danceable smooth jazz, with strong inflections of funk. He frequently indulges in pop covers, and is arguably the city’s best-known smooth jazz musician.

Two legends of the ’70s R&B charts, funk bands the Bar-Kays and One Way, share the stage for one night at Bethesda’s Blues & Jazz Supper Club.

The pianist Marcus Johnson makes highly danceable smooth jazz, with strong inflections of funk. He frequently indulges in pop covers, and is arguably the city’s best-known smooth jazz musician.

James “Jas.” Funk leads Proper Untensils, one of the oldest go-go bands in D.C. that still preserve the music’s sound from the original wave spearheaded by Chuck Brown. He celebrates his birthday.

The pianist Marcus Johnson makes highly danceable smooth jazz, with strong inflections of funk. He frequently indulges in pop covers, and is arguably the city’s best-known smooth jazz musician.

Soul is at the heart of the jazz tradition and Jamison Ross has plenty of it. Originally from Florida where he helped bring his high school band to New York to win Lincoln Center’s Essentially[...]

Gospel star J.J. Hairston leads Youthful Praise through gospel and worship numbers.

Rochelle Rice, a talented vocalist from the training grounds of Howard University’s award-winning a cappella group, Afro Blue, and alumnus of Strathmore’s Artist-In-Residence program, blends straight-ahead jazz and classic, bluesy R&B.

Pianist and vocalist Mark Meadows is one cornerstone keyboardists on the D.C. jazz scene.  With his band, the Movement, Meadows makes music that fits comfortably between the genre-bending futurist fusion of Robert Glasper and the[...]

Singer Rahsaan Patterson performs an urban adult mix of R&B and soul.

24-year old Veronica Swift is a prodigy vocalist, having recorded her first album at age 9, finished second in the 2015 Monk competition and headlined jazz festivals before she could purchase alcohol. Her phrasing is[...]

Singer Rahsaan Patterson performs an urban adult mix of R&B and soul.

Soul singer-songwriter Lyfe Jennings has produced albums and songs that have hit the top of the Billboard pop and R&B charts.

Sweet Honey in the Rock, founded in Washington, D.C. back in 1973, is one of the iconic African-American a capella ensembles. The all-female group performs a social justice-charged form of vocal music with deep roots[...]