![]() With the Green Project, this violinist fuses myriad styles, from funk to smooth jazz to classical. You may have caught Chelsey Green and her strings-based group, the Green Project, backing the Wu-Tang Clan during their appearance at NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert. jazz elders and young guns alike to meet and play in the tradition. With residencies at the One Step Down, Bohemian Caverns, Twins and, most recently, Blues Alley, the orchestra has long been a platform for D.C. ![]() He’s been working with a rotating cast in his orchestra for 25 years but it swings and hits hard no matter who is in it. He plays trumpet and flugelhorn in a highly lyrical, almost romantic style. Trumpeter Thad Wilson has long been a cornerstone of the D.C. Ronnie Wells Main Stage, Saturday, 1:30 p.m. Some of his best accompanists – alto saxophonist Bruce Williams, baritone saxophonist Jason Marshall, pianist Marc Cary, bassist Ameen Saleem and drummer Quincy Phillips – join with young virtuous Giveton Gelin to pay tribute to Hargrove. Many learned from him in jam sessions over the years and many others joined his various bands. While departed trumpeter Roy Hargrove may not have been from D.C., his impact has been substantial on the city and its musicians. Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival’s tribute to Roy Hargrove ![]() Eugenio will likely bring tunes from her debut album, Jump, out last March via Dave Douglas’s Greenleaf label. with a chordless trio with a sound that recalls other stripped-down sax trios, such as Sonny Rollins’, Walter Smith III’s and Lee Konitz’s. A winner of the DC Jazz Festival’s “Jazz Prix” competition in 2022, she returns to D.C. Julieta Eugenio is one of the most exciting exponents of New York’s hard-swinging contemporary scene. (You can also see the full schedule and buy tickets at the festival’s website.) Tickets are available for the full festival, or for individual events. ![]() If you go, here are a few performances we recommend you not miss over the three-day marathon. As usual, both Saturday and Sunday are packed with a range of performers - from international stars to local stalwarts to various collegiate and high school-level big bands. The festival runs from this Friday afternoon, Feb. Carr and Whalum – who met while students at Texas Southern University – will be joined by Walter Smith III, a Texas tenor titan in his own right, for a summit of supreme swing Saturday night. That’s also why Carr invited the smooth-jazz saxophonist Kirk Whalum to the proceedings for a couple of performances, including the annual musicians’ summit, where three masters on the same instrument play together in a display of solidarity, comparison and contrast. “I wanted to book artists that have that varied type of background, and the flexibility to play all these types of music inspired by jazz.” On the rock side, Brecker has credits across the field with Lou Reed, Ringo Starr and Bruce Springsteen (listen to his trumpet work on “Meeting Across The River”). Brecker “has shaped the sounds of jazz, soul, R&B and even rock to a certain extent,” Carr said. The inclusion of trumpeter Randy Brecker, whose jazz credentials range from the fusion he made with his brother Michael in the Brecker Brothers, to stints with Art Blakey, Horace Silver and Idris Muhammad, serves as a prime example of this “all shades, all hues” mentality. We’re trying to include as many people as possible because we’ve lost a lot of people during the pandemic, and that goes for educationally as well as fans and patrons.” That goes for the performers, too. “I know people might think of me as this hard traditionalist – and that’s my love, acoustic straight-ahead jazz – but I came to jazz by listening to Grover Washington, Jr. “I came to jazz through Grover Washington, Jr.,” the veteran D.C.-area saxophonist and educator said in an interview this week. When you think of the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, which celebrates its 14th edition this weekend at the Rockville Hilton, Paul Carr wants you to think “inclusivity.” That’s why for this year’s edition, he chose the slogan “All shades, all hues.”
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