The dog days continue, at least in terms of high-profile gigs coming to town. On the other hand, D.C. still has a glut of great local players working regularly. Whether you've seen them or not, it's a great time to drop in with open ears.
Thursday, August 18
Until I say that the ensemble plays New Orleans [...]
Friday, Feb. 11
Freddie Redd is one of the great secret weapons of hard bop piano, a man who spent the 1950s playing on records—his own and others'—that were bona fide jukebox hits. Butch Warren is a living legend, the former house bassist for Blue Note Records whose name is stamped on undeniable classics of the [...]
Thursday, Jan. 13
You might know Amy K. Bormet from her weekly role as pianist and backbone of the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra (and perhaps you saw her thoughtful interview on this WTTG tribute to the late Dr. Billy Taylor). But she's got other tricks up her sleeve. Her 2011 resolution, she recently stated, is "MORE [...]
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 [...]
As the seasons change, there is NO change in the mighty Far Out vs. Hot Dang. We still hear everything that is rattling around in D.C.'s cultural chasm. And, well, we choose to ignore a lot of it. The rest? It ends up here, assembled for your pleasure. Aw yeah.
Pierce Brosnan apparently is "beefcake"
Still bitchy [...]
Friday, Oct. 8
Nasar Abadey is home! Just under a year ago, the imaginative virtuoso drummer (who calls his music "Multi-D") was accepted for a State Department cultural tour that took him and his Supernova quartet (saxophonist Joe Ford, pianist Allyn Johnson, and bassist James King) to Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Mozambique for a [...]
Mehari Weldemariam, Columbia Station's manager, has weighed in on Butch Warren's dismissal from the Adams Morgan venue's performance schedule. The long and short of it: It was a business decision. "We have to keep things fresh," says Weldemariam. "When you have the same people playing over and over again, you don't get the same size [...]
Legendary jazz bassist Butch Warren, once the house player for Blue Note Records and member of Thelonious Monk's band, and one of the most respected living bassists, has for nearly four years been the featured attraction on Wednesday and Saturday nights at Columbia Station in Adams Morgan. But Peter Edelman, pianist and de facto [...]
A bit late this week, but let's get into it.
March 26
He 's managed to be both unsung and a legend. But Freddie Redd is one of the heroes of the hard-bop sound that's dominated mainstream jazz for half a century. He played on Lou Donaldson and Tina Brooks records (along with his own classic [...]
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Butch Warren in action. Uploaded by YouTube user radiokingz.
Local bass player Butch Warren is not just a tenured townie and a pickup musician, he's one of the most celebrated bass players in the history of jazz.
Born in the District, Warren starting gigging around town [...]
