News

What to see at this week’s 12th annual Washington Women in Jazz Festival

The Washington Women in Jazz Festival was one of the first major cancellations to hit the D.C. jazz scene in March 2020, starting what became a tidal wave of silence across the District and the country. Last year, the WWJF went all-virtual, helping to prove that large-scale, grassroots music events could pull off the transition […]
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The Month in Shows

5 live jazz picks for (the rest of) March in D.C.

This month marks two years since the COVID-19 pandemic hit full-bore in the District. But looking at the amount of great music being made in all sorts of venues around the city this March, it’s remarkable how strongly the D.C. jazz scene has rebounded. We’re late getting this month’s five-jazz-picks column posted, but there’s still plenty […]
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Announcing...

CapitalBop presents Simone Baron’s “genre-fluid” chamber ensemble, Arco Belo, in two shows this Sunday and Monday

occupy our dreamscapes!resist oppressive specificity !free the space on the margins! Those three lines from Simone Baron’s “ruin manifesto” provide some insight into the strikingly unique sound of her chamber ensemble, Arco Belo. The format of the group is a blend of traditional Western classical piano quartet with a jazz combo, but more unusual still […]
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CapitalBop’s artist residency returns with Amy Bormet’s AMYANA

Before the pandemic, CapitalBop’s Spotlight Residency was a monthly showcase of D.C.’s most innovative bandleaders, presenting two nights of their music at Local 16 on U Street. As luck would have it, we had planned to take March 2020 off, and to resume with an April presentation of AmyAna, a band fronted by D.C. pianist […]
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We’re hiring

The CapitalBop team is happy to announce that we are hiring our first-ever Executive Director. We’re heading into an exciting new chapter for our organization — and for the D.C. music scene overall — and this new team member will be at the helm. Anyone in our community with experience in nonprofit management and arts administration, a […]
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News

Jazz is returning to the Kennedy Center’s Club at Studio K

Nearly two years since the Covid-19 pandemic first swept through the country, the Kennedy Center is finally reactivating the Club at Studio K — which means the return of consistent jazz programming to D.C.’s most illustrious venue. The Club at Studio K opened in its present form shortly before the coronavirus pandemic, so its first run […]
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Announcing...

Announcing the 7th Annual Jazz & Freedom Festival, a day of live music & activism benefiting Harriet’s Wildest Dreams

Even before the #DontMuteDC movement sprang up in 2019, music and activism had long gone hand-in-hand in Washington, D.C. You could say that together they represent the full spectrum of the freedom struggle: joys, frustrations and the work still to be done. Today, with the coronavirus in retreat and a mayoral campaign just getting underway, […]
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Album reviews

Best D.C. Jazz Albums of 2021

This has been a tough year, with just a few false starts of hope sprinkled in. We’re ending it much the same as we began: mostly in isolation, unsure of what’s to come. But throughout all of the difficulties we’ve continued to rely upon each other, especially on the D.C. music scene, where we’ve grieved […]
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