The Month in Shows 5 live jazz picks for May in D.C. Before the coronavirus pandemic, it was pretty easy to predict what venue a band might be playing at, and... April 29, 2022 0
Announcing... Announcing the 7th Annual Jazz & Freedom Festival, a day of live music & activism benefiting Harriet’s Wildest Dreams Even before the #DontMuteDC movement sprang up in 2019, music and activism had long gone hand-in-hand in Washington, D.C.... February 4, 2022 0
News Alice’s Jazz and Cultural Society set to reopen Alice’s Jazz and Cultural Society, a beloved straight-ahead jazz venue in Brookland, is set to resume operations this July,... May 27, 2021 0
Features Rachel Winder finds ‘Freedom’ in the midst of struggle On a chilly, clear-skied February morning in Baltimore City, the young composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Rachel Winder was holed... March 5, 2021 0
Album reviews Best D.C. Jazz Albums of 2020 Over the past 10 years on the D.C. jazz scene, we’ve seen venues come and go. We’ve seen elders... December 22, 2020 0
Announcing... Introducing: Freedom Summer Sessions, a series of digital concerts and conversations with D.C. artists We find ourselves at a crossroads in the centuries-long struggle against racism and the state-sanctioned brutalizing of Black lives.... July 14, 2020 3
The Month in Shows 5 jazz picks for February in D.C. You can celebrate Valentine’s Day with jazz at many shows next week — including CapitalBop’s presentation of trumpeter Marquis... February 6, 2020 0
Interviews Empirical, a cutting-edge U.K. jazz quartet, plays D.C. on Sunday [ai1ec post_id=”129144″ view=”agenda”] The British jazz quartet Empirical began an odyssey of unconventional public performances in early 2015 with... June 19, 2019 0
Album reviews Stories of love and resistance fuel Reginald Cyntje’s latest release, ‘Rise of the Protester’ Reginald Cyntje, it seems, was meant to play the trombone. When he raises the horn to his lips, he... January 28, 2019 0
News It turns out saxophonist Herb Scott is also a talented rapper — hear his new hip-hop single, ‘The Jazz Show’ “I ain’t making no bread at these jazz shows / So I started rapping with my saxophone / Just... January 18, 2019 0