‘The past to the present to the future:’ Yard Byard finds its own way to celebrate piano legend Jaki Byard—without a pianist
Jazz’s gospel roots are apparent in the way we talk about the music’s iconic figures. Solos and improvisations are...
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This Sunday: One Mic festival’s panel on jazz and hip-hop, featuring Derrick Hodge
You knew it was only a matter of time before the Kennedy Center undertook an earnest, deep-in-the-stacks celebration of...
At the KC Jazz Club, young drummer Jamison Ross takes his audience on a Joy Ride
Jamison Ross and Joy Ride The KC Jazz Club Saturday, March 1 There are moments when you enter a...
In newly announced jazz season, Kennedy Center reaches for breadth, and new ideas
The Kennedy Center’s newly announced 2014-15 jazz season offers a broad but digestible lineup that mixes performers young and...
Weekend in Jazz | 10.8-10.10: The Bandwagon rolls in, D.C. Jazz Loft gets a new home & much more
by Giovanni Russonello Editorial board You’ve heard about Jason Moran — the feature in the New Yorker, the chatter...
Reflections on the DC Jazz Festival at Millennium Stage: The universal language of jazz
Writer John Cook spent the first two nights of the 2013 DC Jazz Festival at the District's most cost-effective venue for those looking to expand their musical horizons.
Explorations of sonic personalities: a brief introduction to Nicole Mitchell’s Ice Crystal
With Nicole Mitchell's formula, honest music made by honest musicians, the resulting sound is depth by default.
Charles Lloyd: ‘The threads of tradition,’ and the quiet urgency of moving forward
Charles Lloyd conveys himself with the stooped grace of a sage, and the weightless steel of his saxophone sound...
Weekend in Jazz | 10.26-10.28: Jason Moran spices up KC Jazz Club; Ralph Peterson comes to Twins
by Giovanni Russonello Editorial board Ralph Peterson, Art Blakey’s last protege on drums in the 1980s, has himself become...
Interview | Jason Moran on getting jazz to dance, laugh and try out some new ideas
by Giovanni Russonello Editorial board Jason Moran, the Kennedy Center’s new jazz adviser, is something of an inconspicuous insurgent...