Dc Jazzfest Alison Crockett John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts June 15
A Chiliad Night for Mastery
The almanac National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters awards concert is always a grand night on the annual jazz calendar. Peculiar to this fine art class, jazz remains both nostalgic and forever questing in forrad motion. But on tonight nosotros pause to honor the greats, including the twelvemonth's newly-minted form of NEAJMs and those past Masters in the audience; and therein lies one of the charms of these events, gazing around the hall and witnessing the pride and please which the assembled Masters seem to take in this honor and this event. This year the NEA Jazz Masters evening shifted from its longtime January agenda slot to one conducive to April's Jazz Appreciation Month designation. Despite the engagement shift the evening maintained its brilliance. For ane thing its always interesting to glance around the room – in this example the NEA Jazz Masters event's home for the concluding several years, Jazz at Lincoln Center – and estimate the assembled Masters in the business firm and their collective and individual responses to the acceptance speeches and subsequent performances of their peers. Just over the railing where we were situated I caught one of my mentors, NEAJM Randy Weston at rapt attention as the young eye/erstwhile soul vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant brought new depth to the timeless "Motherless Kid" in tribute to the ancestor NEAJM Jimmy Scott. As she completed her performance a cappella, you could feel the rapt attending in the room poised to explode with applause. Hers was one of several house band serenades to the Masters, including the tasteful touch of their performing as the audience was being seated, which immediately elevated the commonage attention span for the honors to come. Otherwise the performance component belonged to the new NEA Jazz Masters and friends.
Carla Bley gave a gracious, thoroughly selfless credence speech communication that was the starting time of a mutual thread in the acceptance remarks of the other two musicians – saxophonists George Coleman and Charles Lloyd – each of whom bodacious the audition in their private parlance that theirs is a never-catastrophe quest to truly larn this music; each conveying the sense that while graciously accepting this singular award, none is set up to rest on these laurels. George Coleman, a flake halting of gait but forever brawny of tenor saxophone, teamed up with i of his acolytes, Eric Alexander, for a tenor tet-a-tet mini-set up that sparkled particularly in the upwards tempo. Charles Lloyd brought the spiritual component with an extended performance of "Lark" from his new recording Wild Human being Trip the light fantastic, his first for Blue Notation.
This year'southward NEA Jazz Masters A.B. Spellman recipient for advocacy went to the indomitable Joe Segal of Chicago's enduring Jazz Showcase order. NEAJM Jimmy Heath introduced Segal with his usual puckish humor, then brought out his soprano sax to join Chicago'south own Ira Sullivan on alto for a squarely in the pocket tribute functioning.
Word has information technology that the 2016 NEA Jazz Masters event will be held in DC; stay tuned… Here are some photos from this lovely evening, all courtesy of the keen eye of photographer Michael One thousand. Stewart.
NEA JAZZ MASTERS Form OF 2015: l-to-r CHARLES LLOYD, CARLA BLEY, GEORGE COLEMAN, JOE SEGAL WITH NEA CHAIRMAN JANE CHU
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT GAVE A SPELLBINDING READING OF "MOTHERLESS Kid"
GEORGE COLEMAN WAS COMMANDING ON TENOR WITH ONE OF HIS Erstwhile STUDENTS, ERIC ALEXANDER, AND HAROLD MABERN ON PIANO
CHARLES LLOYD W/GERALD CLAYTON, JOE SANDERS, ERIC HARLAND, AND SOKRATOS SINOPOUOLOS
JIMMY HEATH & IRA SULLIVAN PROVING One time AGAIN THAT "BEBOP IS THE MUSIC OF THE Futurity", AS NEAJM DEXTER GORDON SAID
THE HOUSE BAND FRONTLINE INCLUDED RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA ON ALTO, INGRID JENSEN ON TRUMPET, HELEN SUNG ON Pianoforte, RUDY ROYSTON ON DRUMS
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DC Jazz Festival Announces Lineup for
Jazz in the 'Hoods Presented by Events DC
Neighborhood Venues Host More than Than 80 Performances Citywide
One of the hallmarks of the annual DC Jazz Festival (total disclosure: your correspondent, Willard Jenkins is Creative Director of DCJF) is its big tent component known equally Jazz in the 'Hoods. This annual celebration of the wide spectrum of jazz in our Nation'south Capital (a significant percentage of which is presented complimentary of charge) is a vibrant component that includes venues and jazz producers from every quadrant of our city (Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest), including jazz presented in neighborhoods that are by and large deprived of live opportunities to experience this art of the improvisers, such as east of the Anacostia River. Here's the 411 on our Jazz in the 'Hoods component for 2016. For complete DC Jazz Festival data visit world wide web.dcjazzgest.org
WASHINGTON, April xx, 2015 — The DC Jazz Festival is thrilled to announce the schedule for Jazz in the 'Hoods Presented past Events DC. Jazz in the 'Hoods is a major characteristic of the DC Jazz Festival (June 10-16) that highlights the urban center equally a vibrant cultural capital, and brings jazz to all 4 quadrants of the nation's uppercase – NE/NW/SE/SW. Over 80 performances at more than forty neighborhood venues volition entertain Washington, DC residents and visitors across the city.
"The DC Jazz Festival has grown into the largest music festival in the District of Columbia and every bit a supporter of the DC Jazz Festival for the concluding 7 years, nosotros are proud to be associated with the overall growth of the festival and in detail, Jazz in the 'Hoods," said Erik A. Moses, managing managing director of Events DC's Sports and Amusement Segmentation. "The Jazz in the 'Hoods series brings people together to relish great jazz in a diverseness of DC'south coolest neighborhood venues."
Jazz in the 'Hoods Presented by Events DC represents an heady partnership with local clubs, restaurants, hotels and galleries in celebration of jazz in our nation's uppercase. Jazz in the 'Hoods takes place in over 40 DC venues with more than 80 performances in 21 neighborhoods throughout the city, presenting a mix of local and nationally recognized artists in an attempt to recognize and celebrate the genre. It has a tradition of alluring large, varied audiences of DC residents and tourists of neat diversity.
For the fifth sequent year, Jazz in the 'Hoods will include CapitalBop's DC Jazz Loft Series. A partnership of DC Jazz Festival and CapitalBop, DC Jazz Loft Series will present young, boundary breaking musicians likewise as DC-based artists all grounded in the tradition of jazz and its extensions, often performing in unusual or popular-upwards venues. This is a "pay-what-you-can" serial designed to concenter the broadest spectrum of attendees, including young, first-time audiences.
The East RIVER JazzFEST returns for its quaternary twelvemonth. In collaboration with East River Jazz, a "festival within a festival" will nowadays free jazz performances and programs to thousands of residents, at theaters, museums, places of worship, libraries and senior centers east of the Anacostia River. All EAST RIVER JazzFEST performances will gloat American composer Billy Strayhorn, Knuckles Ellington's chief collaborator
With a multifariousness of costless and ticketed performances in 21 neighborhoods, including Adams Morgan, Capitol Hill, Chinatown, Downtown, Dupont Circle, Foggy Bottom, Georgetown, Mount Pleasant, the H Street Corridor, Southeast, Southwest, Takoma Park, the U Street Corridor and Woodley Park, Jazz in the 'Hoods annually attracts a vibrant audience of thousands of music enthusiasts.
New in 2015: the University of the District of Columbia is partnering with DC JazzFest on music and education programs, including a Bossa Nova exhibition from the Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives, launching in June and running the entire summer. The Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage will host the Discovery Series, five costless concerts highlighting upwards-and-coming immature artists. And, Transparent Productions, the DC area's purveyor of cutting edge performances, will bring their unique flavor to the Festival.
Participating venue partners include Bohemian Caverns, Twins Jazz, Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, Kennedy Centre Millennium Stage, Atlas Performing Arts Center, and Gallery on H, and National Gallery of Arts Sculpture Garden, among others. Jazz in the 'Hoods also features CapitalBop's D.C. Jazz Loft Series at the Hecht'southward Warehouse, THEARC and the East RIVER JazzFEST Serial.
"Jazz in the Hoods is a classic manifestation of the DC Jazz Festival's various, 'big tent' offerings, partnering with vibrant spaces and adventurous presenters effectually boondocks to bring exciting artistry to our community," said Willard Jenkins, the DCJF's Artistic Managing director.
Jazz in the 'Hoods showcases a virtual cornucopia of nationally and internationally acclaimed artists and numerous outstanding D.C.-based jazz groups. The schedule to date includes:
Anacostia Arts Center (1231 Good Hope Rd, SE)
June 13, 10:00 AM, The Lovejoy Group; Sabbatum Morning Jazz Brunch
Atlas Performing Arts Center (1333 H St, NE)
June xi, viii:00 PM, Brad Linde's BIG OL' ENSEMBLE feat. Elliot Hughes
June 14, half dozen:00 PM & 8:30 PM, In Jazz We Trust: Music in Motion/ The Princess Mhoon Dance Project
Bistrot Lepic & Wine Bar (1736 Wisconsin Ave, NW)
June x, Jazz in the Wine Room
June fifteen, Jazz in the Wine Room
Bohemian Caverns (2001 11th St, NW)
June 10, 7:xxx PM & 9:30 PM, Braxton Cook
June 11, 7:30 & ix:30 PM, Gretchen Parlato / Lionel Loueke Duo
June 12. 8:00 PM & ten:00 PM, Gretchen Parlato / Lionel Loueke Duo
June 13, viii:00 PM & 10:00 PM, Nicholas Payton
June xiv, 4:30 PM, AfroHORN (a Transparent Production)
June 14, vii:00 PM & nine:00 PM, Nicholas Payton
June 15, 8:00 PM & 10:00 PM, Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra (with Special Guest Oliver Lake)
June 16, 7:30 PM & 9:30PM, Creative person in Residence: Christie Dashiell
Children's National (111 Michigan Ave, NW)
June 16, 12:30 PM, Charles Rahmat Wood
June 16, 2:30 PM, Laura Sperling
Dorothy I. Heights Benning Neighborhood Library (3935 Benning Rd, NE)
June 15, 2:00 PM, Iva Jean Ambush and Jazz Abuscade: Baton Strayhorn and Lena Horne/They're Together Again
Dukem Jazz (1114-1118 U St, NW)
June 11, 9:00 PM & ten:30 PM, Mark Meadows Quartet
Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library (3660 Alabama Ave, SE)
June 12, i:00 – 3:00 PM, Janelle Gill Ensemble: Exploring Strayhorn
June xiii, 2:00 – 4:30 PM, Christylez Bacon: Strayhorn from a Hip-Hop Perspective
Gallery On H (1354 H St, NE)
June 12, 8:00 – 11:00 PM, Music in the Courtyard
June 13, 7:00 – 11:00 PM, Jazz Circus in the Courtyard
June 14, 2:00 – 7:00 PM, Music in the Courtyard
Haydee's Eating house (3102 Mt Pleasant St, NW)
June eleven, seven:00 PM, Rock Creek jazz
June 12, 9:00 PM, Little Red & The Renegades
June 13, 7:00 PM, D-6 Jazz Band
CapitalBop'due south DC Jazz Loft Series at Hecht Warehouse (1401 New York Avenue, NE)
June 11, eight;00 PM, Trio of Trios: Gary Thomas / Warren Wolf / Young Lions
June 12, ix:xxx PM, Thundercat / Sam Prather'due south Groove Orchestra
June xiii, 8:00 PM – 12:00 AM, AACM at 50: Ernest Dawkins, Nicole Mitchell, Mike Reed, Tomeka Reid
Hill Center at the Onetime Naval Hospital (921 Pennsylvania Ave, SE)
June fourteen, v:00 PM, CapitalBop'southward Hot five at Hill Center, feat. Fred Foss
Honfleur Gallery (1241 Proficient Hope Rd, SE)
June 14, 1:00 – 3:30 PM, Reginald Cyntje Ensemble: Strayhorn, Caribean Interpretations
Japan Data and Cultural Center (1150 18th St, NW)
June xi, six:30 PM, Nobuki Takamen
Jojo's Restaurant and Grill (1515 U St, NW)
June ten & 11, 7:30 – xi:30 PM, Live Jazz, Blues & R&B
June 12, ten:00 PM – 2:30 AM, Belatedly Night Live Jazz, Blues & R&B
June 14 – 16, 7:30 – 11:thirty PM, Alive Jazz, Blues & R&B
Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens (1550 Anacostia Ave, NE)
June 14, x:00 AM, Herman Burney/ Reginald Cyntje: Sunday Morning Strayhorn Duet
Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (2700 F St, NW)
DC Jazz Festival "Discovery Series"
June 8, 6:00 PM, Elijah Jamal Balbed Jo-Go Project
June x, 6:00 PM, Sweet Lu Olutosin
June 12, vi:00 PM, Alison Crockett
June 13, half-dozen:00 PM, Sine Qua Non
June 14, half dozen:00 PM, Crush Funk Brass
National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden (7th St & Constitution Artery, NW)
June 12, 5:00 – viii:30 PM, George V. Johnson, Jr.
NYU/DC Abramson Family Auditorium (1307 L St, NW)
June 12, 12:00 PM, Meet the Artist: Edmar Casteñeda
June 13, 12:00 PM, Encounter the Artist: NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette
Renaissance Downtown DC (999 9th St, NW)
June ten, five:00 – 8:00 PM, David Schulman and Quite Life Motel
June 12, 5:00 – eight:00 PM, Kenny Nunn-Trio
Renaissance DuPont Circle (1443 New Hampshire Ave, NW)
June eleven, 5:00 – 8:oo PM, Eliot Seppa Trio
June 12, v:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Colin Chambers Trio
Rumba Café (2443 18th St, NW)
June 10, "La Trifulca" Live Tango Music, Emmanuel Trifilio in Bandoneon
June 11, 9:00 PM, Martin Zuniga Quartet, Afro Peruvian Music
June 12, 11:00 PM, Joe Falero's Band, Latin Jazz, Boleros, Rumba
June xiii, xi:00 PM, Kique'southward Band, Southward American Rock Popular Acoustic
June 14, 9:00 PM, Pavel Urkiza" Cuban Troubadour – Ibero American Earth Music
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue (600 I St, NW)
June 14, ii:00 PM, Meet the Artist: Baton Hart of The Cookers
June 14, 8:00 PM, The Cookers feat. George Cables, Billy Harper, Donald Harrison, Billy Hart, Eddie Henderson, Cecil McBee, and David Weiss (including postal service-concert Meet the Artist Q&A)
Takoma Station Tavern (6914 fourth St, NW)
June x, 7:00 PM, Brilliant Corners featuring T. Sharron
June 11, 7:00 PM, Punch 251
June sixteen, seven:00 PM, Bill Freed with Offset and Third (Jam Session)
Town Hall Didactics Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC) (1901 Mississippi Ave, SE)
June 9, 10:30 AM, Jazz Meets Hip Hop: The West.E.S. Group – Gratis-registration required
Tryst (2459 18th St, NW)
June 12, 9:00 PM, Pocket Funk
June xv, viii:00 PM, Electric Trio
June 16, eight:00 PM, Wytold – Cello Soloist
Tudor Identify Historic House and Garden (1644 31st St, NW)
June 10, half dozen:00 PM, James King String DUO with Donato Soviero
Twins Jazz (1344 U Street, NW)
June xi, 8:00 & 10:00 PM, Sasha Elliot
June 12, nine:00 & eleven:00 PM, Michael Thomas Quintet
June thirteen, 9:00 & xi;00 PM, Michael Thomas Quintet
June 14, viii:00 & 10:00 PM, Marty Nau
Uniontown Bar and Grill (2200 Martin Luther King Junior Ave, SE)
June thirteen, 8:00 PM, Greg Hatza's Organ Blues Band: Blues – Strayhorn – Blues
UDC Felix Due east. Grant Jazz Archives: Learning Resources Division (Library Edifice 41, Level-A) (4200 Connecticut Ave, NW)
Summertime 2015, Mon-Saturday, Library Hours, Exhibition: Bringing Bossa Nova to the United states
UDC: Recital Hall (Performing Arts Building 46-W) (4200 Connecticut Ave, NW)
June 9, seven:00 PM, JAZZforum: Muneer Nasser-UpWrite Bass: The Musical Life and Legacy of Jamil Nasser
UDC Amphitheatre (4200 Connecticut Ave, NW)
June fifteen, 7:00 PM, JAZZAlive in the Hood: Bruce Williams with Allyn Johnson and the UDC JAZZtet
We Deed Radio (1918 Martin Luther King Inferior Ave, SE)
June fourteen, 1:00 PM, Various Children Essays & Videos: A Strayhorn-Inspired Historical Collage Pop-Up
June 14, four:00 – 7:00 PM, Pepe Gonzalez Afro-Cuban/Latin Jazz Ensemble: Strayhorn inspired Afro-Cuban Jazz
The 2015 DC Jazz Festival will exist held June 10-sixteen. For a complete schedule and more than information, visit www.dcjazzfest.org.
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About DC Jazz Festival® (DCJF)
With more 125 performances in nearly sixty venues across the city, the DC JazzFest is one of the largest music festivals in the country. A 501(c)(iii) non-profit organization, the DCJF has experienced spectacular year-by-year growth. As the fastest-growing jazz festival in the U.Due south., the DCJF celebrates America's unique original art class during this international upshot that attracts jazz lovers from around the world to the nation'due south capital. The DCJF also presents year-round programs with performances featuring local, nationally and internationally acclaimed artists. The DCJF's mission is to promote music, particularly jazz, education programs and actively support community outreach to expand and diversify its audience of jazz enthusiasts. The 2015 DC JazzFest will take place June 10-16. For more information about the DCJF and its activities, visit world wide web.dcjazzfest.org.
About Events DC
Events DC, the official convention and sports authority for the District of Columbia, delivers premier event services and flexible venues beyond the nation'due south capital. Leveraging the power of a globe-grade destination and creating astonishing attendee experiences, Events DC generates economical and community benefits through the attraction and promotion of business organisation, able-bodied, entertainment and cultural activities. Events DC oversees the Walter Eastward. Washington Convention Centre, an anchor of the District's hospitality and tourism economic system that generates over $400 million annually in total economic impact, and the historic Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Square. Events DC manages the Stadium-Arsenal campus, which includes Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium and surrounding Festival Grounds, the non-military functions of the DC Armory and Maloof Skate Park at RFK Stadium. Events DC besides congenital and now serves as landlord for Nationals Park, the beginning LEED-certified major professional sports stadium in the United States. For more information, please visit world wide web.eventsdc.com.
Proud major sponsors of the DC JazzFest, to date, include: Events DC; Forest Urban center Washington, Capitol Riverfront Business concern Comeback District, The Washington Post; ABC7/WJLA-TV and News Channel eight; Squire Patton Boggs, LLP; LCG, Sage Communications; Clyde'south Restaurant Group and Hamilton Live; Renaissance Hotels, Destination DC; WHUR; the Washington Urban center Paper; Linda and Michael Sonnenreich; Amtrak; WMATA; The Washington Informer; WAMU, Washington Parent, WPFW, and Hipnotic Records.
The DC Jazz Festival®, a 501(c)(3) non-turn a profit service organization, is made possible, in part, with major grants from the Government of the District of Columbia, Muriel Bowser, Mayor; and, in office, by major grants from the Anne and Ronald J. Abramson Family Foundation, Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Mayo Charitable Foundation, Venable Foundation, NEA Foundation, CrossCurrents Foundation, New Music Usa; and with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the DC Committee on the Arts and Humanities, an bureau supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the City Fund, administered by The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region. ©2015 DC Jazz Festival. All rights reserved.
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