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Tuesday, March 17

Awakening Bar & Grill – Capitol Hill

Herb Scott and Hope Udobi Duo

Herb Scott is something of a symbol of the modern jazz cat: he can blow his alto sax with the best of them, burning down the house with Charlie Parker-style, rapidfire phrasing, or he can pick up the mic to…



My father’s music


Jazz was not my music. When I think of jazz, I see that as my father’s music. When I was growing up in the South Bronx, before I came to Washington, D.C., I was listening to folk rock. I was listening to Dylan and Phil Ochs and hanging out in Greenwich Village. I think that…