This is the last post I am making to highlight some of the shows associated with this year’s DC Jazz Festival. I am posting this a day ahead of the date of performances, and being a bit less verbose. For more information visit http://www.dcjazzfest.org/content.cfm/schedule_and_major_events.
The Hamilton features The John Scofeld Trio, featuring the well-known guitarist.
Saxophonist Brad Collins Trio at Georgia Brown’s at 10 AM
Tiacoh Sadia Afro-Jazz (4:00 PM) at the African Heritage Center (1320 Good Hope Road Southeast, Washington, DC) part of the East River Jazz Festival series.
DC Choro at 7:00PM at Grill From Ipanema (1858 Columbia Road NW, Wash. DC.) Choro is a Brazilian musical style that bears similarities to classic ragtime.
This is the ninth post I am making to highlight some of the shows associated with this year’s DC Jazz Festival. I am specifically not highlighting the DC JazzLoft Fest (the Loft Mega-Fest is today) since I have posted on this already. I will may also pick a few other shows around the DC Virginia area that should not be overlooked. I am posting this a day ahead of the date of performances, and being a bit less verbose. For more information visit http://www.dcjazzfest.org/content.cfm/schedule_and_major_events.
Warre Wolf at 2012 Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival
The terrific vibraphonist Warren Wolf leads his Quartet at Faith Presbyterian Church (5PM show) as part of the East River Jazz Festival.
Gallery O on H Street (1354 H Street, NE Washington) has a day and evening of music starting with a student ensemble at 5:30. Saxophonist and composer Brad Linde Quintet is on at 6:40PM; Lennard Jack & Fusion are on at 7:50PM and the Afro-Bop Alliance is on at 9:15PM.
The Hamilton has trumpeter Etienne Charles & Kaiso and pianist Monty Alexander & The Harlem-Kingston Express.
Bohemian Gardens hosts saxophonist Marcus Strickland once more.
Vocalist Dee Stone is at the Black Fox Lounge.
For blues fans, The Tinner Hill Blues Festival takes place in Falls Church.
Here is a video of Brad Linde Ensemble with guest Lee Konitz (who is not scheduled to appear at the DC Jazz Festival).
This is the eighth post I am making to highlight some of the shows associated with this year’s DC Jazz Festival. I am specifically not highlighting the DC JazzLoft Fest since I have posted on this already. I will may also pick a few other shows around the DC Virginia area that should not be overlooked. I am posting this a day ahead of the date of performances, and being a bit less verbose. For more information visit http://www.dcjazzfest.org/content.cfm/schedule_and_major_events.
Mark Prince at 2012 Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival
Drummer Mark Prince’s Aqua Leo is at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden at 5:00PM. Prince is an accomplished drummer who is able to transverse hip hop and rhythm & blues to contemporary and straight-ahead jazz.
At the Hamilton, The Brass-a-Holics will be performing a tribute to the late Chuck Brown with a mix of go go and New Orleans Brass Band.
Vocalist Lena Seikaly will be performing at the Mandarin Oriental
Acclaimed Saxophonist Marcus Strickland will be the Bohemian Caverns. Here he is in performance.
Donvonte McCoy, who Capital Bop calls perhaps the DC area’s leading trumpeter, is at the 18th Street Lounge.
For a non Jazz Festival show, Diunna Greenleaf and Blue Mercy along with Memphis Gold will be at the State Theatre for the opening event of the Tinner Hill Blues Festival. This evening I will be passing on the several excellent jazz programs to see this performance.
Diunna Greenleaf and Jonn Del Toro Richarson at 2010 DC Blues Festival at the Carter Barron
This is the fifth post I am making to highlight some of the shows associated with this year’s DC Jazz Festival. I am specifically not highlighting the DC JazzLoft Fest since I have posted on this already. I will may also pick a few other shows around the DC Virginia area that should not be overlooked. I am posting this a day ahead of the date of performances. For more information visit http://www.dcjazzfest.org/content.cfm/schedule_and_major_events.
The Hamilton hosts a show with the Antonio Hart Organ Trio and NEA Jazz Master, Jimmy Heath. Hart is a Baltimore Native who has become amongst the most acclaimed alto saxophonists today. In addition to his own seven albums, he has worked with the David Holland Big Band, Roy Hargrove, Frank Wess, Gary Bartz and others. Jimmy Heath is a little giant of the tenor saxophonist, acclaimed as a composer, as well as a musician and part of the legendary Heath brothers. One probably cannot name a major jazz figure with whom he wasn’t friends or worked with ranging from John Coltrane, james Moody to Miles Davis (who recorded Heath’s Gingerbread Boy among other tunes.
This is the first post I am making to highlight some of the shows associated with this year’s DC Jazz Festival. I am specifically not highlighting the DC Jazz Loft Fest since I have posted on this already. I will may also pick a few other non festival shows around the DC Virginia area that should not be overlooked. I am posting this a day ahead of the date of performances. For more information visit http://www.dcjazzfest.org/content.cfm/schedule_and_major_events.
The legendary bassist Ron Carter at the Bohemian Gardens for the first of two nights at this legendary DC club. Ron Carter may have recorded more than any bass player in history (he is on over 2000 albums) who first came to notice as part of the last great Miles Davis Quintet, and recorded with Eric Dolphy, Esther Phillips, Freddie Hubbard, Gil Evans and countless others.
Akua Allrich and Randy Weston trio at the Hamilton. The Hamilton, a relatively new venue in the Penn Quarter area, is across E Street from the Williard Hotel. Randy Weston has a recording career that now extends into its seventh decade and with deep roots in blues as well as the music of Monk and Bud Powell was among those pioneering by incorporating the music of Africa in his music. Here is Randy Weston playing his celebrated Little Niles.
Kristine Key is one of the DC area’s fine jazz vocalists and will be performing at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Below she is pictured at the 2011 Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival where she portrayed Billie Holiday in a theatrical production, Sistas Can Sa-a-ng.
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