CB Presents: KOKAYI + Konjur Collective hit Songbyrd Music House on Sunday, April 28
Artist. Producer. Educator. Author. Connector of dots. One man encompasses all this and more: KOKAYI, a virtuoso emcee who...
Tag: jazz
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities announces 2024 music census
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities will put its support behind collecting the 2024 DC Area Music...
Samara Joy to headline 20th anniversary DC Jazz Festival this September
The DC Jazz Festival has announced headliners and other highlights for this coming September’s 20th-anniversary celebrations. Samara Joy, the 24-year-old...
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...
The Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival goes big for 15th anniversary
Arts organizations continue to feel squeezed by the limitations on post-pandemic arts funding, but Paul Carr still wants the...
5 live jazz picks for February in D.C.
Welcome to April, and Happy Black History Month! With it arrive some time-honored DMV traditions, like the Mid-Atlantic Jazz...
Remembering Carl Grubbs, who passed Coltrane’s torch to future generations
Saxophonist Carl Grubbs was just 13 when he met the musician who would become a guiding light, not only...
5 live jazz picks for January in D.C.
As the calendar turns, I want to wish all the readers of this column continued health in the coming...
CapitalBop’s best D.C. jazz albums of 2023
For the past few years, our introduction to this annual tradition has followed a familiar theme: It’s been a...
5 live jazz picks for December in D.C.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – and by that, I mean that we in the D.C....