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CapitalBop is back at Hill Center for a Hot 5 concert on June 19 featuring Reginald Cyntje!

[ai1ec post_id=”122183″ view=”agenda”] You’ve probably read about our blowout series of loft shows at the DC Jazz Festival over the next two weeks. Well, once the dust clears from all that madness, we’re going to settle in for a relaxing evening of gorgeous music from the Reginald Cyntje Group, all carried off with his signature […]

May 9, 2016 0

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Funk Parade this Saturday: Sam Prather’s Groove Orchestra, Nag Champa and more!

Funk Parade is back this Saturday, May 7, for its third annual celebration. U Street is going to become a buzzing hive of groove, good food, and some of the most powerful musical talent this town has on offer. CapitalBop is curating the performances at the M.A. Winter Stage, as we have both of the […]

May 3, 2016 0

Interviews

A conversation with Wayne Shorter, jazz’s patron bodhisattva

Few names in jazz, or in the music world as a whole, command as much reverence and attention as Wayne Shorter’s. The 82-year-old NEA Jazz Master holds not only one of the most impressive résumés in the jazz field, having played in such titanic groups as Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet, […]

April 29, 2016 3

News

International Jazz Day comes to the nation’s capital, bringing stars and a spotlight on the local scene

This Saturday marks the fifth annual International Jazz Day, a celebration of the spirit of jazz that focuses on its ability to unite people across the globe. Each year the day has a different Global Host City, and this year that city is D.C. Dozens of jazz events will take place across the District’s eight […]

April 26, 2016 1

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Thursday: Star-studded ‘City of Poets’ project comes to the Atlas; come be a part of CapitalBop’s Riffin’ session

The Atlas Performing Arts Center on Thursday launches its Jazz Appreciation Mini-Series, in honor of Jazz Appreciation Month, with City of Poets, an engaging new project from the pianist/composer Cedric Hanriot and the trumpeter/composer Jason Palmer. In a way, by presenting this concert, the Atlas is celebrating not only jazz but also the music’s way […]

April 19, 2016 0

News

NEA Jazz Masters ceremony comes to D.C. on Monday, honoring Pharoah Sanders, Gary Burton, Archie Shepp & Wendy Oxenhorn

The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters ceremony comes to D.C. on Monday for the first time in decades, bringing a slate of citywide jazz programming along with it. This year’s class of jazz masters consists of the John Coltrane disciple and spiritual jazz shaman saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders; the versatile vibraphonist Gary Burton; the […]

April 2, 2016 0

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Percussion and the African Diaspora: A special CapitalBop education day at the Smithsonian

CapitalBop is bringing our interactive approach to jazz education and outraeach to the Smithsonian. We’re thrilled to present Percussion and the African Diaspora: A history of innovation, a hands-on master class and concert, at the American History Museum’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, on Saturday, April 9. [ai1ec post_id=”121849″ view=”agenda”] This […]

March 30, 2016 0

Features

Farewell to Bohemian Caverns: Musicians remember the ‘sole home of soul jazz’

When the City Paper revealed last week that Bohemian Caverns would be shutting down, the ground beneath D.C. seemed to shift. For the past 90 years, excepting a few dormant periods, Bohemian Caverns has been the aquifer that animates our city’s legendary jazz scene. It was founded in 1926 as the Night Club Bohemia, later […]

March 25, 2016 3

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Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith to finish their national tour at CapitalBop’s Traveling Loft

There’s no more exciting act in jazz right now than the duo of pianist Vijay Iyer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Their new ECM recording, A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke, is already a highlight of this relatively new year—a spacious, tensile, brilliantly unfolding work of exploratory trust. It’s received accolades from sources as varied […]

March 21, 2016 0

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DC Jazz Loft this Sunday: Three very different young bands at Union Arts

Spring is just around the corner—come celebrate with a night of smokin’ music from some of the brightest young talents in D.C. After a fabulous Traveling Loft concert at Capital Fringe last month, we’re back at Union Arts for a down-home DC Jazz Loft this Sunday night. We’re thrilled to be presenting three exciting groups—featuring […]

March 9, 2016 0