5 D.C. jazz picks for August 2026
Maria Grand, Bark Culture, Ledisi, Robert Glasper and more uplift D.C. this August.
What’s on the Calendar
Sunday, August 23
Blues Alley – District of Columbia
Deborah Bond
Silver Spring’s Deborah Bond performs a contemporary take on neo-soul and R&B music, offering a lightly buoyant and melodic brand of original music, filled with infectious joy. She often features some of D.C.’s young lions in her bands, including Trey…Mentioned in past coverage
‘I Remember Miles’: elders recall a ‘special relationship’ between Miles Davis and D.C.
In a career spanning nearly 50 years, Miles Dewey Davis helped guide many of the major evolutions in jazz music. A pioneer of the cool-jazz, hard-bop, modal and fusion styles, he later pushed boundaries with his explorations of hip-hop alongside producer Easy Mo Bee, right up until his death in 1991. Less well-known is the…
