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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

Sunday, March 29

Pen Arts – District of Columbia

Washington Women in Jazz Festival [Day 2]

The annual Washington Women in Jazz Festival, founded by Amy K. Bormet, condenses its programming into a weekend marathon of presentations at the Pen Arts Building. The celebration of all non-male jazz musicians, activists and impersarios in the D.C. jazz…



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…