Ben Williams speaks up, and sings out, on ‘I Am a Man’
After the 2016 presidential election, bassist Ben Williams began a new project to address the changing social climate in...
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Watch Sarah Marie Hughes perform at our Spotlight Residency
Our Spotlight artist-in-residence in October was Sarah Marie Hughes, a daring alto saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist who is emerging as...
Mark G. Meadows’ ‘To the People’
On the title track of his third album, To the People, the pianist and vocalist Mark G. Meadows sings,...
René Marie, debuting new material in Bethesda, majors in upsetting expectations (Reposted)
Editor’s note: This interview was originally published in 2013, when René Marie was first touring in support of her...
Where are the singer-songwriters in jazz?
Sriram Gopal Swing District During the first half of the 20th century, popular performers rarely wrote their...
Album review | Andréa Wood’s Dhyana
by Giovanni Russonello More and more these days, jazz vocalists are using innovation to reassert the idea that the...