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The Month in Shows

5 D.C. jazz picks for March 2024

Whenever March rolls around, I cannot help but think back to this time four years ago, when the COVID-19...

March 6, 2024 0

The Month in Shows

5 live jazz picks for March in D.C.

Happy Women’s History Month! The premiere event on the D.C. jazz scene this month is the Washington Women in Jazz...

February 28, 2023 0

News

Hillfest and Down in the Reeds: two free festivals to choose from this Saturday

Washington D.C. has several outdoor — and totally free — music festivals happening this weekend. Jazz and world-music fans will...

October 7, 2022 0

Weekend in Jazz | 9.9-9.11: Jazz glut! From festivals to lofts, fresh faces to living legends

by Giovanni Russonello Editor-in-chief The Washington City Paper‘s Michael J. West already characterized this weekend’s jazz offerings as “an...

September 9, 2011 0

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