The Home Rule Music Festival returns June 21-22 (and July 20!) with Gary Bartz, Vanessa Rubin, DuPont Brass & more
The mercury is rising and AC units have started to hum. It’s time to start figuring out how you’re...
Tag: Elijah Jamal Balbed
5 D.C. jazz picks for May 2024
The D.C. scene has a fiery lineup of shows coming up in May to match the recent flash of...
5 live jazz picks for September in D.C.
The running theme of this column tends to be: “There is a lot of great music happening in D.C....
For D.C. jazz musicians, COVID-19 spells difficulty now—and uncertainty ahead
“I remember, as a little girl, the riots on U Street in 1968,” said the 58-year-old vocalist Sharón Clark,...
‘Every time something happened I found myself at the piano’: Elijah Jamal Balbed takes ‘Karma Suite’ to Kennedy Center
When Elijah Jamal Balbed premiered the “The Karma Suite,” his first long-form composition, at the final Union Arts D.C....
5 jazz picks for January in D.C.
Happy New Year! Lots of great music is happening in the District in the third decade of the millennium,...
Watch the Elijah Jamal Balbed Quartet perform ‘Washington Hospital Center’ at our September Spotlight Residency
Our second-ever Spotlight artist-in-residence was Elijah Jamal Balbed, a prolific young voice on the tenor saxophone in D.C. Balbed...
DC Jazz Loft this Sunday! Join us at Union Arts while you still can, for sets from Elijah Jamal Balbed, Aaron Martin + Alex Hamburger
It’s that time of year again: D.C.’s dog days are coming to a close. To celebrate a summer packed...
A family affair: WPFW celebrates Bohemian Caverns’ Omrao Brown, with a lot of help from his friends
WPFW Honors Omrao Brown Bethesda Blues & Jazz Monday, July 11, 2016 For 90 years, with a few interruptions,...
Elijah Jamal Balbed’s ‘Lessons from the Streets:’ hard-swinging new sounds from a leading young lion
At this point, Elijah Jamal Balbed is undoubtedly the ubiquitous, shining young lion of the tenor saxophone in D.C....