There are plenty of great options this week; unfortunately they seem to have been stacked up across the same three days. Your humble correspondent has had to make some difficult choices.
Friday, September 16
It was sometime in the mid-'90s when this writer, watching crappy mid-'90s Saturday Night Live, was suddenly intrigued by one of the Saturday [...]

Though the celebrations came last night (complete with cake and champagne), it was actually one year ago today that the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra made its first appearance on the stage of the U Street club whose name it bears. "This group is something special," I wrote at the time. "If the orchestra can maintain [...]

Los Angeles native Gretchen Parlato is among an elite group of musicians who made their breakthrough in Washington, D.C.: She was the winner of the 2004 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition for Vocals. Seven years and three albums later, Parlato is one of the most acclaimed and closely watched singers in jazz, and her star [...]

Bohemian Caverns is really bringing out the big guns in its 85th year. This weekend—the first in April, aka Jazz Appreciation Month—will bring two more new features. One is permanent; the other's future is to be determined.
Saturday kicks off a new weekly series of jam sessions beginning at midnight. Longtime Caverns patrons will recall [...]

A PBS documentary on the history of rock & roll, broadcast about 15 years ago, features Little Richard talking about his ascent through the urban blues and R&B circuits and into his first recording session, where he was expected to play the stuff he played in the nightclubs. "But me and the young kids, we [...]

One of these days someone will write a comprehensive history of jazz in the District of Columbia, and 2010 will have a volume all to itself. Or at least a very long chapter. It's simply been a spectacular year for the scene; not always "spectacular" in the positive sense, but momentous and monumental no matter [...]

While catching up with Bohemian Caverns' co-owner and talent booker Omrao Brown before tonight's Curtis Fullergig (a packed house, by the way), he reminded me that in 2011, the U Street jazz anchor turns 85 years old.
It's true. It was 1926 when Club Caverns opened in a dark, windowless basement on the corner of 11th [...]

An occasional feature in which esteemed D.C. rapper Head-Roc shares what’s on his mind.
[A conversation I had yesterday about the cancellation of yesterday's Cornel West Theory show at Bohemian Caverns. All me talking.]
“Really? The show is cancelled? Why?”
“They were shut down? Since Saturday?”
[My “Mouth”]
Well, why the fuck didn’t the venue tell The Cornel West Theory that [...]

An occasional feature in which esteemed D.C. rapper Head-Roc shares what’s on his mind.
A few months back in the early evening, I was passing the Patty Boom Boom Room on U Street NW when I heard a tap on the glass facing the street. I looked up and there was my man Jati Lindsay, arguably D.C.’s [...]

Considering that today is the midpoint of the DC Jazz Festival, pickings are extremely slim; the calendar lists exactly two events this evening. Make of that what you will, but tonight is perhaps the perfect opportunity, if you haven't already, to catch the District's only in-residence big band: the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra.
We covered the [...]