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The top 5 D.C. jazz albums of 2025


This past spring, in one of his last acts as artistic director for jazz at the Kennedy Center, Jason Moran gathered some of the great practitioners of this music for a summit of listening, improvisation and spontaneous composition. It was a night about making. This has felt all the more radical in light of the…





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Saturday, December 27

Blues Alley – District of Columbia

Monty Alexander

Veteran pianist Monty Alexander uses jazz as a canvas; music from the Caribbean, American cities, and various other cultures around the globe are his colors. In collaborations with the likes of Ray Brown and Milt Jackson, Alexander’s Jamaican roots have…