For the past 15 years, the Washington Women in Jazz Festival has created a space of sharing and community for the many women and nonbinary performers who help make the District of Columbia’s jazz scene what it is.
Ahead of this weekend’s 15th annual WWJF, CapitalBop asked the festival’s 2025 artists-in-residence, vocalist Alison Crockett and flutist Alex Hamburger, to sit down for a probing, no-holds-barred conversation on how they approach the work of performing and educating. Crockett and Hamburger (who is also CB’s managing director) took on such major topics as culture’s role in music education, gender politics on the bandstand, their relationships to the music of Brazil, and much more.
Both Alison and Alex are scheduled to perform sets at the WWJF this Saturday, at the PEN Arts Mansion near Dupont Circle. Tickets and more info are available at strangewomanrecords.com.
Video produced by Giovanni Russonello and Jamie Sandel. DP and editor: Jamie Sandel. Set assistant: Kayla Wallace. Special thanks to Steve Coleman, Washington Parks & People and Alison Crockett.
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