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Jackson Sinnenberg

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Jackson Sinnenberg is a broadcast journalist and a freelance writer. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, JazzTimes, Downbeat, NPR Music, NPR.org, the Washington City Paper, On Tap/District Fray Magazine and the blog of Smithsonian Folkways Records. He began covering the city’s music scene for WGTB, Georgetown University’s radio station, where he was a show host, writer, and columnist. He graduated from Georgetown with a bachelor’s degree in American Musical Culture. Reach him at [email protected]. Follow him at @sinnenbergmusic.

Author Archives: Jackson Sinnenberg

Live reviews

R+R=NOW, featuring Robert Glasper and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, tests a supergroup’s potential at the DC JazzFest

R+R=NOW The Anthem Saturday, June 16, 2018 Those expecting some grand political statement about resistance or revolution from R+R=NOW...

June 28, 2018 0

News

6 Shows You’ll Want to Catch at the DC Jazz Festival: CapitalBop’s Guide

It’s that time of year again: Starting this weekend, and running through next Sunday, June 17, a wealth of...

June 8, 2018 0

Features

Thad Wilson Jazz Orchestra, a D.C. jazz ‘street university,’ celebrates its 20th anniversary

On a cold January night in D.C., a dozen musicians are crammed onto the compact stage at Twins Jazz....

February 7, 2018 0

Interviews

Brian Blade on his Fellowship Band at 20, and ‘being led by what the music wants’

Brian Blade is perhaps best known to jazz audiences these days at the drumming dynamo that powers the Wayne...

November 10, 2017 0

Live reviews

What Solange and Sun Ra Have in Common

Solange and the Sun Ra Arkestra Kennedy Center Oct. 1, 2017 “You can’t have the White House without the...

October 16, 2017 0

Interviews

Nico Segal and Julian Reid on the JuJu Exchange, Chicago’s latest fusion experiment

Trumpeter Nico Segal is probably best known for blowing hard and heavenly alongside his fellow Chicagoan Chance the Rapper....

September 14, 2017 0

Interviews

Young bass phenom Linda May Han Oh talks about her new album, ‘Walk Against Wind’

Linda May Han Oh often describes the improvisational exchanges between herself and her bandmates—whether the members of her current...

June 18, 2017 1

Interviews

Miles Mosley talks God, grooves and gigging with the West Coast Get Down

On “Young Lion,” the first track from his debut album Uprising, Miles Mosley announces himself to the world with...

May 25, 2017 0

Live reviews

Andrew White celebrates a long history of musical pursuit at Blues Alley

Andrew White Blues Alley Wednesday, April 26, 2017 The homemade flyers, softly illuminated by the faux votives on each...

May 10, 2017 0

Announcing...

Michael Formanek’s renowned Ensemble Kolossus headlines our next Traveling Loft

True to its name, Michael Formanek’s 19-piece Ensemble Kolossus makes music of enormous scope. But it’s also intricate and...

April 7, 2017 1

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