The Month in Shows 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... April 30, 2024 0
Interviews ‘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... April 24, 2024 0
News 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... April 19, 2024 0
Features 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... April 19, 2024 0
Features 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... April 11, 2024 0
The Month in Shows 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... March 31, 2024 0
News 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... March 28, 2024 0
Features 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... March 28, 2024 0
Features 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... March 27, 2024 0
Interviews 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... March 23, 2024 0