Appreciation | Lessons from Mr. Warren
Editor’s note: Lyle Link posted this remembrance on Facebook earlier this week. The sensitivity, thoughtfulness and sincere humility that...
Category: Features
Musician profile | Baltimore native Cyrus Chestnut relishes his gift — and passes it on to students
Cyrus Chestnut performs at the Hamilton during the DC Jazz Festival. Along the way, he is spotlighting six of his most talented students.
Explorations of sonic personalities: a brief introduction to Nicole Mitchell’s Ice Crystal
With Nicole Mitchell's formula, honest music made by honest musicians, the resulting sound is depth by default.
Heidi Martin, an under-appreciated D.C. vocalist, challenges through introspection
Go hear Heidi Martin perform at the Atlas Performing Arts Center this Thursday, and you’ll witness a woman unloosing...
Musician profile | Akua Allrich: Uniquely Akua
The vocalist Akua Allrich has been attracting attention over the past few years for her emotionally and spiritually charged...
Artist profile | Afro Bop Alliance sets jazz alight with the energy of Latin rhythms
by Ken Avis CapitalBop contributor Remember the Smithsonian Jazz Café? If so, you probably remember the Afro Bop Alliance;...
Photos | From Oz to D.C., with love: The District’s jazz scene, through the lens of an outsider
During his visit from Australia this summer, the award-winning, Canberra-based photographer Ray Strange hung out around the jazz bars...
Tarus Mateen’s never-ending journey
Editor’s note (Jan. 27, 2015): Tarus Mateen performs this Wednesday at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage. Info is available...
Special feature | Remembering Joe Byrd, beloved bassist who helped bring bossa nova to U.S.
by Ken Avis CapitalBop contributor The D.C. area this month lost one of its most appreciated and legendary musicians....
Special feature | Remembering Jimmy “Junebug” Jackson, D.C. drum doyen and beloved friend
by Giovanni Russonello Editorial board D.C.’s most storied drummer, and one of its most boisterously joyful spirits, departed from...