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5.2-5.4: Funk Parade, avant-garde sounds in high and low places, and more

Saturday’s all-day, all-night Funk Parade is a highlight this weekend. CapitalBop’s responsible for booking the jazz stage at this...

May 2, 2014 0

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4.25-4.27: Straight-ahead masters, a tribute to Charles Mingus & more

Both Kenny Barron and the Clayton Brothers belong to the last generation that experienced jazz’s mid-century heyday. In the...

April 25, 2014 3

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4.18-4.20: Jazz’s top brass at Blues Alley, plus young D.C. sax star Braxton Cook

by Giovanni Russonello & Allen Jones Editorial board D.C.’s own Braxton Cook has been on tour recently with the...

April 18, 2014 0

4.11-4.13: Blues Alley’s piano week brings Cyrus; guitar focus at Levine Music

by Giovanni Russonello Editorial board The D.C. Jazz Loft isn’t the only exciting show this weekend (though with the...

April 11, 2014 0

4.4-4.6: Mining the divide between art forms, plus two great jazz vocalists

Two bands arrive this weekend hawking their own ideas about the close relationship between jazz and hip-hop. On Friday...

April 4, 2014 0

3.28-3.30: Jon Batiste, Sunny Jain, Kris Funn, Mickey Bass and much more

This Friday night, D.C. bass powerhouse Kris Funn brings his funky quartet, Corner Store, to the Hill Center. Before...

March 28, 2014 0

3.21-3.23: Washington Women in Jazz Fest finale, Amiri Baraka tribute & more

This weekend marks the end of the Washington Women in Jazz Festival. The best way to celebrate is on...

March 21, 2014 0

3.14-3.16: Miles Davis tribute, young gun Kush Abadey & Wash. Women in Jazz

All this weekend Blues Alley features a cross-generational tribute band to Miles Davis, offering the rare opportunity to see...

March 14, 2014 0

3.7-3.9: Make some noise for Women’s History Month: Bullettes, Bormet & more

You can hardly go wrong this weekend on the D.C. jazz scene. Two exciting jazz projects with consciously African...

March 7, 2014 0

Weekend in Jazz | 2.28-3.2: Young talents take the Kennedy Center stage; Baltimore’s best hit U St.

Editorial board The pianist Gerald Clayton and the drummer Jamison Ross are two early bloomers who owe a lot...

February 28, 2014 0

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