D.C. pianist James Fernando is a semi-finalist in a worldwide jazz competition
James Fernando, a rising jazz pianist and composer, is representing the District as one of 50 semi-finalists in the...
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Best D.C. Jazz Albums of 2020
Over the past 10 years on the D.C. jazz scene, we’ve seen venues come and go. We’ve seen elders...
Remembering Andrew White, saxophonist, scholar, impresario and D.C. music royalty of the highest order
The accomplishments of Andrew White — multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, entrepreneur and performer, who made his home in Northeast D.C....
Hear these four just-released D.C. jazz albums
Fall 2020: We’re rounding the seventh month of a generation-defining pandemic; U.S. social and political tensions are coming to...
The legend of Yahya Abdul-Majid
Yahya Abdul-Majid was a musician with an intense air of mystery about him. I had often heard stories of...
A chat with Sunny Sumter, DC Jazz Festival executive director and ‘Jazz Hero’
As the longtime executive director of the DC Jazz Festival, Sunny Sumter has guided the festival through over a...
The DC JazzFest returns this weekend in digital form
In a normal year, the DC Jazz Festival hosts hundreds of talented artists in performances at venues around the...
Live jazz, socially distanced? Ghostline DC, a new ‘restaurant collective,’ thinks it can be done
A newly opened space in Glover Park is trying out an innovative model for restaurants operating amid the coronavirus...
With government aid tied up, struggling jazz venue owners ponder their options
In early spring, when the coronavirus pandemic’s drastic impacts were still sinking in, many on the D.C. jazz scene...
Save D.C. Venues: The Music Venue Relief Act
Join our coalition of musicians, organizers and advocates calling on the city to step in before we lose more...