Tom Teasley, World Percussionist

UDC Recital Hall - Performing Arts Bldg. 46-West

World percussionist Tom Teasley shares his experience as a performer and composer. Learn more at https://lrdudc.wrlc.org/jazz/events.php/

Jazz Forum @ UDC: Sonny Rollins Biographer

UDC Recital Hall - Performing Arts Bldg. 46-West

JAZZforum - Aidan Levy in Conversation with Reuben Jackson - Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins Wednesday, February 8, 2023 • 7:00 p.m. Saxophone Colossus is Aidan […]

UDC Jazz Book Panel: Black Music Writers

Washington, DC

February 27th at 7 p.m., the artistic director of the DC Jazz Festival will lead a panel discussion on the book, Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story. The book presents over two dozen candid dialogues with black jazz critics and journalists and includes an anthology section, which reprints classic […]

Lecture-Recital: Piano Music by Black Women Composers

UDC Recital Hall - Performing Arts Bldg. 46-West

UDC's music program celebrates Women’s History Month with a lecture-recital on the piano music by Black women composers. Dr. Leah Claiborne, coordinator of UDC Keyboard Studies and Music of the […]

UDC Jazz Presents Davey Yarborough

Washington, DC

Meet the Artist on the Bandstand – Davey Yarborough Wednesday, March 29, 2023 • 7:00 p.m. Woodwind specialist, composer-arranger, bandleader, and educator Davey Yarborough will be at UDC for a […]

Piano Music of Black Composers

Tues. Oct. 3 at 12:30pm, in the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Building (46-West), UDC's Dr. Leah Claiborne, through demonstration & performance, will share the new release of her new 2 Vol. publication, ‘Expanding the Repertoire : Piano Music of Black Composers’. Free.

Meet the Artist Lecture @ UDC featuring Herb Scott

UDC Jazz Studies Director Allyn Johnson invites saxophonist, bandleader, activist, and founder/executive director of the Capitol Hill Jazz Foundation Herb Scott for a lively session of conversation and performance. Tuesday, October 17 • 12:30 p.m. UDC Recital Hall (Performing Arts/Building 46-West) • Free & Open to the Public

Lecture-Performance @ UDC: Jazz and Classical Indian Music

UDC Recital Hall - Performing Arts Bldg. 46-West

Tom Teasley and John Wubbenhorst present a lecture-performance focusing on the intersection of jazz and classical Indian music. John Wubberhorst is among the foremost experts in explaining Indian musical concepts to Western musicians having lived in India for several years. He is a disciple of the famed Bansuri flutist, Hariprasad Chaurasia. Tom Teasley is well […]

Lecture/Performance: Christie Dashiell @ UDC

UDC jazz studies director Allyn Johnson invites the incomparable Christie Dashiell to host this session of conversation and performance with her sisters and DC's finest - pianist Janelle Gill and […]