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[…] Die is a natural evolution from Bowie’s last group, MBowie and the BLAST, known best for performing a smorgasbord…
On Michael Bowie and BLAST: Anything goes, and everything grooves, in this master bassist’s new jazz-pop fusion band
[…] the orchestra has seen many players come and go. One who has never left the group’s orbit is the District’s…
On Andrew White, ‘Keeper of the Trane,’ is a living legend unknown to many
[…] Down club in Foggy Bottom until its closure in 2000. The ensemble carried on at the newly opened HR-57 for a…
On News | HR-57 is moving … and adding a blues club?
[…] opened HR-57 for a time, then became Bohemian Caverns’ first house orchestra (a precursor to the namesake Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra). As…
On Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra: Monarchs of Monday night
[…] of higher learning, a “street university” for rising talent, in the words of founding member Reginald Cyntje, a trombonist. Cyntje,…
On After a banner 2015, Reginald Cyntje uses a familiar musical family to conjure fresh ‘Moods and Colors’
[…] the change of a note can change the direction of the harmony entirely,” she said in a recent interview…
On Young bass phenom Linda May Han Oh talks about her new album, ‘Walk Against Wind’
[…] I first saw you perform with Wayne Shorter during the Kennedy Center premiere of The Unfolding. Wayne is one…
On Jazz legend Wayne Shorter premiers ‘The Unfolding,’ an orchestral suite that reaches for the stars
[…] Garcia; he’s been my mentor and huge on the scene and killin’ it in every regard. Marquis Hill is…
On Marquis Hill: Jazz’s most celebrated young trumpeter on the ‘Modern Flows’ of Black music today
[…] Formanek and Ensemble Kolossus’ Washington premiere and performance for the spring edition of CapitalBop’s Traveling Loft on Saturday, April…
On Michael Formanek’s renowned Ensemble Kolossus headlines our next Traveling Loft
[…] CapitalBop contributor Marc Minsker wrote about White in 2011, “One would think that with all [his] accomplishments, this person…
On Andrew White, ‘Keeper of the Trane,’ is a living legend unknown to many