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Jackson Sinnenberg

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Jackson Sinnenberg is the Morning Edition Producer and Editor for WAMU 88.5 - Washington, D.C.'s NPR News Station. As an arts and culture reporter, his work has appeared in the Washington Post, JazzTimes, Downbeat, NPR Music, and the Washington City Paper. 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 @sinnenbergamu.

Author Archives: Jackson Sinnenberg

Features

Archival LPs revisit the lasting legacy of the Left Bank Jazz Society

For nearly 40 years, The Left Bank Jazz Society (LBJS) presented regular Sunday jazz shows in Baltimore, and turned...

April 26, 2023 0

The Month in Shows

5 live jazz picks for April in D.C.

Happy Jazz Appreciation Month! The annual 30-day celebration of jazz and creative music kicked off strongly on April 1,...

April 3, 2023 0

Interviews

‘Different ways of relating:’ Kris Davis breaks down the vision behind her landmark album ‘Diatom Ribbons’

When Kris Davis won the “Rising Star Pianist” award in DownBeat‘s 2018 critics’ poll, it was not so much...

March 15, 2023 0

The Month in Shows

5 live jazz picks for March in D.C.

Happy Women’s History Month! The premiere event on the D.C. jazz scene this month is the Washington Women in Jazz...

February 28, 2023 0

News

This weekend, Mid-Atlantic Jazz Fest celebrates ‘all hues’ of jazz in D.C. and beyond

When you think of the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, which celebrates its 14th edition this weekend at the Rockville Hilton,...

February 16, 2023 0

Interviews

‘Ain’t But a Few of Us:’ Willard Jenkins on why Black jazz writers’ voices matter

The idea for Ain’t But a Few of Us, Willard Jenkins’ new volume exploring the experiences and work of...

February 2, 2023 0

The Month in Shows

5 live jazz picks for February in D.C.

After a brief period of hibernation in January, the D.C. jazz scene is starting to roar back to life....

January 31, 2023 0

The Month in Shows

5 live jazz picks for January in D.C.

Happy New Year! I hope you all – readers, musicians and other D.C. jazz movers and shakers – got to...

January 4, 2023 0

News

Hear the Howard University Jazz Ensemble’s grand send-off to Andrew White

The late saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist and polymath Andrew White was a D.C. jazz legend. At once a musician ahead of...

December 29, 2022 0

Interviews

‘The Nutcracker’ gets a new groove, thanks to Joe McCarthy and the Afro-Bop Alliance

The Afro-Bop Alliance is known for combining the swaying, dance floor-ready rhythms of Latin America – Cuba, in particular...

December 16, 2022 0

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