‘New Sounds, New Energies’: Transparent Productions kicks off its 25th season
“Sundays at Seven at the Caverns.” In recent years, that phrase had been a rallying cry and a sound...
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The DC Jazz Festival is back. Here’s a guide to what’s on.
The 2021 DC Jazz Festival kicks off on Wednesday at the Swedish Embassy — 18 months after D.C. first...
Jazz Night is back at Westminster Presbyterian Church
Westminster Presbyterian Church, known as D.C.’s “Jazz Church,” plans to resume its beloved Friday concert series, Jazz Night in...
Eighteenth Street Lounge to reopen in a new location near the convention center
Eighteenth Street Lounge, a mainstay of the D.C. music scene that shut down last year in the middle of...
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,...
D.C. jazz clubs face the future
“Will I be able to play my instrument with other people in a venue? I don’t know, and that’s...
With her new book, millennial D.C. historian Briana Thomas aims to tell the ‘full story’ of U Street
For much of the 20th century, U Street was known as “Black Broadway,” a mecca of Black cultural life...
‘ESL: The Photo Book’ captures a unique place and time in D.C. nightlife
Editor’s note: In recognition of Jazz Appreciation Month, CapitalBop is publishing a series of articles throughout April on books that...
‘DC Jazz’ tells a history of the people and places that made D.C. an important home for jazz
Editor’s note: In recognition of Jazz Appreciation Month, CapitalBop is publishing a series of articles throughout April on books that...
Photo collection aims to make a century of D.C. jazz history ‘personal’
Editor’s note: In recognition of Jazz Appreciation Month, CapitalBop is publishing a series of articles throughout April on books...