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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...
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....
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...
Wayne Shorter on what inspired ‘Iphigenia,’ his landmark opera with Esperanza Spalding
There’s a story Wayne Shorter often tells that encapsulates a lot of his artistic vision these days. “We played...
5 live jazz picks for December in D.C.
It’s a complicated time: Mayor Muriel Bowser has lifted the city’s mask mandate; Virginia re-instated one; the Omicron variant...
WATCH: The return of CB Sessions, featuring the Alex Hamburger Quartet
When Alex Hamburger played CapitalBop’s last DC Jazz Loft at Union Arts, in 2016, it was clear that she...
After protests, D.C. Council votes to keep Natalie Hopkinson and Cora Masters Barry on the arts commission
The D.C. Council on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected an attempt by its chair to depose two members of the D.C....
Where Eighteenth Street Lounge used to be, Sam Prather and his G.O! 4tet bring the music back
It’s midnight on a weekend in D.C. Just south of Dupont Circle, off a stretch of Connecticut Avenue where...
Hillfest returns this week, with a focus on preparing musicians for a post-Covid economy
Hillfest, the annual outdoor festival and conference organized by the Capitol Hill Jazz Foundation, will return this Wednesday and...