Jan. 21
You've probably met that guy—the one who tells you he loves Brazilian music, and busts out the only songs he actually knows: "The Girl from Ipanema," "Corcovado," and a couple of Caetano Veloso numbers. Great tunes, all, but not terribly representative of the huge and deeply rich body of music from Brazil. A [...]

Setlist normally tries to stick with one jazz event per evening. But most evenings aren't New Year's Eve, where we'll all be out on the town and wondering what our options are. So, as a Washingtonian and a jazz nerd, it is my duty to tell you that the options are many.
Dec. 31
The District's strongest [...]

The experimental music fan has two very different but equally appealing avant-garde music options this weekend.
On Saturday, hop over to Twins Jazz for a free-jazz concert the likes of which the District doesn't get enough these days, as pianist Joel Futterman and reedist Ike Levin duo it up. Futterman played Twins Jazz a couple years [...]

Slumgum is a jazz quartet from L.A. with a name that only a beekeeper could love.  The young group’s sophisticated, elegant blend of modern classical music and avant-garde jazz belies its icky moniker.  The members formed Slumgum when they met as students at the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts.  However, expect the band [...]

Ever philosophical Reginald Cyntje — the District's go-to jazz trombonist — has been inspired by the until-today-nonsucky weather to put on a special concert at Twins Jazz, 1344 U Street NW, on Saturday afternoon at 3.
Billed as the "Celebration of Love & the Change of Season concert," the gig features Cyntje with a quartet [...]

Tuesday nights at Twins Jazz now belong to local flautist and saxophonist Charles Rahmat Woods, whose edgy trio the Blue Tuesday Club (with pianist Jerrel Pederman and drummer Joe Link) has a regular gig at the U Street haunt. The band's name was inspired by the intensity of this year's primary elections—a sign that Woods [...]