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...
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‘Don’t write an opera, tell a story:’ Terence Blanchard’s path to ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’
New Orleanian musician Terence Blanchard is known for many things. Recently named a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts...
Bob Boilen, creator of NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk,’ named program director of WOWD-FM, Takoma’s community radio station
Bob Boilen, the veteran NPR music host and creator of the widely popular “Tiny Desk Concert” series, has come...
At the Sonic Lifeline’s shows, artists come first — and audiences reap the rewards
From the outside, late on a Tuesday night, the downstairs of Whitlow’s DC looks like any other restaurant in...
Willard Jenkins has been connecting jazz with listeners for more than 50 years. Now, he’s an N.E.A. Jazz Master.
Willard Jenkins wasn’t a jazz fan first. Growing up in 1960s Cleveland, naturally he loved the sounds of Motown...
5 D.C. jazz picks for April 2024
Happy Jazz Appreciation Month! A key moment on the nation’s capital’s jazz calendar, JAM gives D.C. the chance to...
Rhizome DC announces plans to purchase a building, launches community financing push
Rhizome DC, home base for the city’s DIY arts community, has announced plans to purchase an empty storefront in...
The 14th Washington Women in Jazz Festival packs music, community and celebration into one overflowing weekend
Jazz has always tended to be an unfortunately dude-centric vocation. Although women often appeared prominently as instrumentalists in New...
What do Duke and Dilla have in common? The Kennedy Center’s Hip Hop & … Festival offers its own answers
The Kennedy Center’s Hip Hop & … Festival arrives this week with a series of remarkable sessions and concerts...
The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis are ‘chasing energy,’ not genre, on powerful new LP
For the members of D.C.-based pyrotechnic rock trio the Messthetics and luminary tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, the question...