Interviews

Cecily taps the healing power of joy on ‘Awakening Pt. II’

According to the late Black feminist scholar bell hooks, love is a verb — an action we choose every day. But whereas so much of our cultural programming limits our thinking about love to the context of sex and romance, hooks goes beyond that. In her seminal text All About Love, she characterizes love as […]
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The Month in Shows

5 D.C. jazz picks for September 2024

Happy Labor Day to everyone reading, and to the many hustlers, movers and shakers that keep all the plates spinning for the D.C. jazz scene. We’re forever grateful for the mountains you move. Hopefully those who went enjoyed the DC Jazz Festival over the past few days. While, as Mike West noted in his recent CapitalBop […]
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Features

CB’s guide to the 2024 DC Jazz Festival

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the DC Jazz Festival, and with that comes a lineup worthy of the milestone. This year’s offerings reflect the diverse weave of approaches, textures and philosophies that make up the tapestry of contemporary “jazz,” a.k.a. #BAM, while still reflecting the straight-ahead sound of the D.C. jazz scene that […]
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CapitalBop Presents: Matthew Shipp Trio at NYU in DC, Sep. 27

“Shipp’s…classic piano trio…ranks among the pre-eminent units in modern jazz.”—New York City Jazz Record Since the 1980s, pianist Matthew Shipp has been the Platonic ideal of an original improviser. With his unique and electrifying style, Shipp is now recognized as a living legend of the avant-garde. A New York downtown-scene fixture, Shipp has combined forces […]
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Features

The 6 D.C.-area record stores that will scratch your vinyl itch

CapitalBop recently asked Rhome Anderson, aka DJ Stylus, a well-known DMV-area DJ and record collector, to survey D.C.’s under-appreciated landscape of high-quality independent record stores. Below are his picks for the top shops in the area. Photos by Keith Butler. Washington, D.C. has a strong community of crate-diggers and DJs, and by extension, a network […]
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The Month in Shows

5 D.C. jazz picks for August 2024

Given the dizzying news cycles between this column and the last, I hope all of your heads have stopped spinning as much as possible and you can find some time to put down the phone or pry yourself away from the computer monitor and get out to see some live music. It will center you, […]
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