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Riffin’ with Don Byron, king of the clarinet and preacher of jazz’s New Gospel

Let’s be honest: You getting tired of all these jazz projects that claim to combine bop with some distant...

January 29, 2014 1

Riffin’ at the Atlas continues with D.C.’s guitar god, Anthony Pirog

This Thursday our monthly series, Riffin’: CapitalBop Listening Sessions at the Atlas, welcomes its first local artist. Anthony Pirog...

January 14, 2014 0

This Thursday! Grammy-nominated drum star Matt Wilson talks shop at our latest Riffin’ session

Riffin’: CapitalBop Listening Sessions at the Atlas, CapitalBop’s series of fun, ear-opening artist conversations, continues tomorrow with the world-renowned...

December 18, 2013 0

News | Dukem Jazz launches this Thursday; weekly, no-cover series is latest addition to U St. scene

by Giovanni Russonello Editorial board It’s commonly known that U Street’s jazz past shines a little more brightly than...

December 2, 2013 1

SPECIAL GIVEAWAY: Wayne Escoffery, a gentle giant of the sax, with Jeremy Pelt at Blues Alley

by Giovanni Russonello Editorial board Few straight-ahead tenor saxophonists in the past 30 years have topped Wayne Escoffery in...

November 25, 2013 0

Watch music videos and talk shop with the great Steve Lehman, part of CapitalBop’s Riffin’ series

There’s an overflowing handful — you might say a full, high-contrast musical suite — of reasons to go check...

November 11, 2013 1

Join CapitalBop for a free Black Radio 2 listening party, featuring live Q&A with Robert Glasper

On the same stage where Stevie Wonder recently turned up for a surprise cameo at his own tribute show,...

October 30, 2013 0

This Saturday: CapitalBop launches ‘Riffin” series of interactive listening sessions with renowned artists

Ever wonder what it’d be like to flip through old YouTube footage and chat about it with one of...

October 23, 2013 4

SPECIAL GIVEAWAY :: New Orleans jazz/funk phenom Trombone Shorty plays the 9:30 Club

by Giovanni Russonello Editorial board Is there any more powerful, pleasure-seeking, dance-inducing performer today than Trombone Shorty? The New...

October 17, 2013 2

Obituary | Butch Warren, powerful bassist on classic recordings, dies at 74; cast long shadow over D.C.

by Giovanni Russonello Editorial board Butch Warren, a bassist and D.C. native who lent a flexible muscularity to numerous...

October 10, 2013 1

CapitalBop,Inc, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting, presenting and preserving jazz in Washington, D.C. Founded in 2010 and run by young cultural organizers and musicians, CapitalBop grows audiences and builds community around jazz because we believe it is important to the city’s historic identity as well as its contemporary culture. CapitalBop.com is an online magazine and resource designed to help everyone from newcomers to diehards connect with the city’s thriving live jazz scene and musicians. We present grassroots shows that unite diverse audiences while showcasing jazz in nontraditional, outside-the-box scenarios. Our emerging education program seeks to connect D.C.’s great teaching artists with children across the city, helping them access their own creativity by tapping them into the rich cultural legacy of their hometown.