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Photos: At St. Vincent, jazz blooms


There’s something about walking into St. Vincent, lower Georgia Avenue’s only club with regular jazz programming. First you step up, then in. It’s a little dark, but the greeting is warm. To your left is the bottle shop. Above you, audible but out of sight, is the music, a bar, more people, and a few…




What’s on the Calendar

Wednesday, April 1

Jojo Restaurant and Bar – District of Columbia

Kenny Rittenhouse Trio

Trumpeter Kenny Rittenhouse has led ensembles of various sizes around the DMV for two decades, and is a member of many others (including the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra). Rittenhouse specializes hard-bop a la Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers under…



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…