HeyJaredMichael J. West
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Swing Beat: The Best of the Best D.C. Jazz Festival (opens the original)
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Before the first note even sounded, the 2026 D.C. Jazz Festival was already the most exciting edition in recent memory. The lineup was astounding. On Sunday, Sept. 6 alone, one could see an assemblage of alumni from the late Afrophile pianist-composer Randy Weston’s bands on the Wharf’s Transit Pier; walk a few dozen feet over to District Pier to catch crooner-adjacent jazz singer Kurt Elling with jazz fusion stalwarts the Yellowjackets; cross Maine Avenue SW to see angular avant-garde pianist M
Swing Beat: Local Jazz Luminary Paul Carr to Take Over Friday Nights at Jazz Church (opens the original)
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It was to the Southwest Waterfront that I moved when I arrived in D.C. in 2001; I lived there for my first four and a half years here. There was no Wharf (or at least no The Wharf™), just a few homely brick restaurants lining the river. No commercial strip along 4th Street SW, just the ’70s relic Waterside Mall, whose few remaining inhabitants included a CVS, a Pizza Hut, a video store, and a genuine escalator to nowhere. In the time since, the neighborhood has been completely revamped, rebuilt,
Swing Beat: Keeping Up With the Dashiells (opens the original)
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When drummer Carroll Vaughn “C.V.” Dashiell III, a mainstay of the D.C. jazz scene, was a teenager, his family was approached to do a reality TV show. Producers spent a week with the Dashiell family before throwing in the towel. “Ultimately they were like, ‘You all are too boring! All the kids do is practice and go to rehearsal,” Dashiell recalls. “They come home and Mom has dinner ready. You do your homework and you all go to bed. We can’t sell this, there’s no drama!’” One has to wonder how on
Swing Beat: Keeping Up With the Dashiells (opens the original)
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When drummer Carroll Vaughn “C.V.” Dashiell III, a mainstay of the D.C. jazz scene, was a teenager, his family was approached to do a reality TV show. Producers s
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