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...
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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...
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...
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...