
10/06/2023
Paul Carr’s Blues Alley residency continues with two time Grammy nominee Roberta Gambarini!!! 🔥🎶🔥🎶🎷
Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival February 14-16, 2020 @ The Hilton Hotel, Rockville MD 20850 Rooms $115.00
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Paul Carr’s Blues Alley residency continues with two time Grammy nominee Roberta Gambarini!!! 🔥🎶🔥🎶🎷
CARRKEYS! CARRKEYS! CARRKEYS! Blues Alley TONIGHT! TONIGHT! Two Sets 7:00 & 9:00pm Don’t miss the very special collaboration of legendary saxophonists! 🎶🔥🎷🎶
Jazz At The Kramer next week features Michael Bowie and Janelle Gill!!! Don’t miss one of the most innovative voices on bass, paired with one of the fearless and creative piano voices. 🔥🔥🔥 Second Wednesday Jazz in Downtown Silver Spring 6:00-8:00pm. Free, but you must register for tickets. See you there!
CARRKEYS! CARRKEYS! CARRKEYS! Blues Alley Tuesday October 3rd Two Sets 7:00 & 9:00pm Don’t miss the very special collaboration of legendary saxophonists! 🎶🔥🎷🎶
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Tomorrow!!! Come out and celebrate music of Buster Williams and John Coltrane at the finest room for Real Jazz! The Caton Castle!! Gets your tickets now!!
Come out and celebrate music of Buster Williams and John Coltrane at the finest room for Real Jazz! The Caton Castle!! Gets your tickets now!!
Bob Boguslaw and James B King Jr. “Got next”
@ Jazz At The Kramer Sept.13th! Free but click the link to reserve your ticket to the pianist to the “Presidents” Bob Boguslaw and the legendary James “King James” King on
bass!!’ Don’t miss this show
Experience a FREE evening of jazz music on the second Wednesday of each month at the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery and Music Room!
Happy Birthday to MAJF Director Paul Carr!
Sunnyland Slim - b. 1907 - piano – 9/5
Paul Carr – b. – saxophone – 9/5
Bruce Harris - b. 1979 - trumpet – 9/5
Jeff Lofton - b. 1966 - trumpet – 9/5
Buddy Miles - b. 1947 – drums – 9/5
Albert Mangelsdorff - b. 1928 - trombone – 9/5
Yeah, we went to church last night!!!! 🤣
Scenes from the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival’s Summer Series! The grand finale tonight @ El Golfo restaurant in Silver Spring featuring The Wes Biles trio with Ella Gahnt and Iva Jean Ambush! This is going to be Amazing! Don’t miss out on a great time, great food and the MAJF RealJazz2 Vibe! Free parking too! 🤣 Cya there 🙏🏿🎶🔥
The Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival Summer Series Grande finale August 24th with the Wes “Suggh” Biles Trio featuring Ella Gahnt and Iva Jean Ambush August 24th MAJF Summer Series Finale El Golfo Restaurant. We hope to see you 🙏🏾 . NEXT WEEK! 🎶🔥
The Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival Summer Series finale August 24th with the Wes “Suggh” Biles Trio featuring Ella Gahnt and Iva Jean Ambush August 24th MAJF Summer Series Finale El Golfo Restaurant. We hope to see you 🙏🏾
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This is a musical collaboration you don’t want to miss! One of the most distinctive and soulful voices in Lavenia A. Nesmith and the brilliance of the masterful Allyn Johnson on piano. This show is sold out, but please sign up on the wait list, there are always a few no shows. Second Wednesday’s jazz At the Kramer is bought to you by the Arts and Humanities of Montgomery County.
Experience a FREE evening of jazz music on the second Wednesday of each month at the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery and Music Room!
Love this poster! MAJF Summer Series Finale featuring Iva Ambush, and Ella Gahnt with The Wes Biles trio!!! August 24th @ El Golfo Restaurant This is a fundraiser for MAJ toF 24’ come on out for some FUN! 🎉🎶
Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival February 14-16, 2020 @ The Hilton Hotel, Rockville MD 20850 Rooms $115.00 www.midatlanticjazzfestival.org
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We sincerely hope you are getting out and enjoying your summer!
The Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival Summer Series Grande finale August 24th with the Wes “Suggh” Biles Trio featuring Ella Gahnt and Iva Jean Ambush August 24th MAJF Summer Series Finale El Golfo Restaurant. We hope to see you 🙏🏾
Jazz At The Kramer…Save The Date! August 9th Features Vocalist Lavenia A. Nesmith and Pianist Allyn Johnson!! You don’t want to miss this one. Link to tickets will be available soon.
The Wes “Suggh” Biles Trio featuring Ella Gahnt and Iva Jean Ambush August 24th MAJF Summer Series Finale El Golfo Restaurant Please Share! 🙏🏾
Special thanks to everyone that came out Thursday night to the second MAJF Summer Series featuring Michael Bowie’s tribute to the great Abbey Lincoln! Great to see so many folk sitting in! Don’t miss our final Summer concert on August 24th with The Wes Biles trio featuring vocalists Iva Jean Ambush and Philly’s own Ella Gahnt!!! Please visit Midatlanticjazzfestival.org for tickets 🙏🏾
Super excited!! Tonight!!!The MAJF Summer Series continues with legendary bassist/band leader/educator Michael Bowie tribute to his former bandleader and jazz master Abbey Lincoln!! Featuring the talented Heidi Martin on vocals. So come on out, hear some great music, eat some great food and support the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Fest all at the same time!! 🙏🏾
MAJF Summer Series Continues! Hope 2 Cya this Thursday! 🎶🔥🙏🏾🎷❤️🎶
Super excited!! The MAJF Summer Series continues with legendary bassist/band leader/educator Michael Bowie tribute to his former bandleader and jazz master Abbey Lincoln!! Featuring the talented Heidi Martin on vocals. So come on out, hear some great music, eat some great food and support the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Fest all at the same time!! 🙏🏾
Super excited!! The MAJF Summer Series continues with legendary bassist/band leader/educator Michael Bowie tribute to his former bandleader and jazz master Abbey Lincoln!! Featuring the talented Heidi Martin on vocals. So come on out, hear some great music, eat some great food and support the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Fest all at the same time!! 🙏🏾
Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival February 14-16, 2020 @ The Hilton Hotel, Rockville MD 20850 Rooms $115.00 www.midatlanticjazzfestival.org
Only a few seats remain for tonight’s second Wednesday’s show featuring the Chuck Redd and Robert Redd! Come on out a beautiful evening of music, surrounded by an engaging art exhibit. We hope to see ya TONIGHT! 
Experience a FREE evening of jazz music on the second Wednesday of each month at the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery and Music Room!
Can’t wait for this one this Wednesday!! Enjoy a fantastic evening of music with The Redd Brothers on Wednesday, July 12th at 6:00 p.m. in the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery and Music Room! Click the button below to RSVP for Jazz at the Kramer featuring vibraphonist Chuck Redd and pianist Robert Redd.
Experience a FREE evening of jazz music on the second Wednesday of each month at the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery and Music Room!
Don’t miss Michael Bowie’s powerful tribute to the great Abby Lincoln featuring Heidi Martin! July 20Th! Free parking and the food is amazing! We hope to see you!
Sean Jones🔥🔥🔥 MAJF Summer Series kick off! Whew!
Paul Carr Quartet with special guest legendary master drummer Winard Harper at Takoma Station his Saturday! Winard has played with Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Betty, Carter, and pharaoh sanders just to name a few. He is one of the most charismatic and exciting drummers ever to pick up the sticks. The band also features Allyn Johnson on piano and Michael Bowie on bass. This promises to be an exciting show 🔥 We hope to see you! Please jkproductions.org for tickets. 🙏🏾🎶
Tonight Night! Sir Sean Jones Quartet kicks off the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival Summer Series! Featuring Allyn Johnson, Kris Funn and Jevon Rushton!!! Great music, great food, free parking and support the MAJF! We hope to see ya!
Tomorrow Night! Sir Sean Jones Quartet kicks off the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival Summer Series! Great music, great food, free parking and support the MAJF! We hope to see ya!
2 shows, One night! D.C. you ready?!
Tickets: https://www.bluesalley.com/events
NEA Master Delfeayo Marsalis joins The Paul Carr Quartet for a tasty gumbo of jazz grooves and fun! Featuring Allyn Johnson, William MoBetta Ledbetter and Quincy Phillips! We hope to see ya! 🎶🔥
Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival February 14-16, 2020 @ The Hilton Hotel, Rockville MD 20850 Rooms $115.00 www.midatlanticjazzfestival.org
Tomorrow 🔥🔥🔥🔥Jazz At The Kramer This is going to be 🔥🔥🔥
Amy K Bormet is a pianist, vocalist, and composer. As creator, producer and performer for the Washington Women in Jazz Festival, now in its 13th year, she has collaborated with Fay Victor, Mary Halvorson, Allison Miller, and more than 75 women and non-binary musicians from around the globe.
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Jessica Boykin-Settles attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, DC under the tutelage of saxophonist and jazz educator, Davey Y. Yarborough. She earned a BFA in Jazz Performance at New School University in NYC where she studied with musicians and jazz legends such as Reggie Workman, Junior Mance, Arnie Lawrence, Buster Williams, Sheila Jordan and Teri Thornton. Jessica continued her education at Howard University where she earned a Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies. While there, she was a member of the premier vocal jazz ensemble Afro Blue, under the direction of Connaitre Miller. She is currently on faculty at Georgetown University.
Experience a FREE evening of jazz music on the second Wednesday of each month at the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery and Music Room!
Tomorrow!! Amy K Bormet, pianist and Jessica Boykin-Settles , vocalist next week Jazz At The Kramer!! June 14th 6-8:00pm Free! Please register to reserve your spot today!
Experience a FREE evening of jazz music on the second Wednesday of each month at the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery and Music Room!
Amy K Bormet, pianist and Jessica Boykin-Settles , vocalist next week Jazz At The Kramer!! June 14th 6-8:00pm Free! Please register to reserve your spot today!
Experience a FREE evening of jazz music on the second Wednesday of each month at the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery and Music Room!
We hope you can join us for our first annual summer series! The Sean Jones, Quartet!! One of the greatest trumpet players of our time! Don’t miss this awesome show! This is a fundraiser for the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival! 🎶
Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival February 14-16, 2020 @ The Hilton Hotel, Rockville MD 20850 Rooms $115.00 www.midatlanticjazzfestival.org
Delfeayo Marsalis with the Paul Carr Quartet @ Blues Alley!! June 27th Two Shows 7:00pm & 9:00pm for tickets www.bluesalley.com
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We just want to say thank you for your support! MAJF22’ was blast because of you and we can’t wait till next year! February 17th-19th 2023 Save the date!
Big thanks to Jon Tigert and Corner Pocket Jazz Band! Swing Dancing at MAJF is born and I’m starting lessons. #majf22 #realjazz2
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Let’s end the year strong! Every donation helps us achieve our mission of uplifting young people through Jazz Education and Community outreach! Help us keep this positive and powerful medicine for our kids going! Jazzacademy.org
A time for giving. Please see what we’ve been up to the last year! If you would like to help, please donate! Thank you 🙏🏾
The eight-time Grammy-nominated and award winner, Kenny Garrett, will perform on the main stage; Sunday, February 20th, 2022 at 10 PM. Kenny is the voice of the modern alto saxophone. He is known for his unique polyrhythmic genre-blending cadences that incorporate improv-heavy Afro-Cuban beats into jazz, R&B, and gospel. These unparalleled rhythms forefront the culmination of jazz history and diverse cultures. Kenny has performed with many legendary jazz musicians during his careers such as Miles Davis, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Listening to a live performance of Kenny Garrett will leave you with an ever-lasting impression of real jazz, its influences and derivatives. #RealJazz2 . . . . #KennyGarrett #Jazz #saxophone #grammyawards
Along with explosive power, blinding speed and mastery of complex rhythms and time signatures, Watts brings a rare sense of elegance, tried-by-fire composure, and a gritty street funk to his music. We explore Jeff Watts and the story behind Chief Tain! His artistic ingenuity expresses itself in his incomparable technique, sweltering sense of swing, and an extraordinary ability to imbue his music with majestic grace and elegant repose. #RealJazz2 Check out our new MidAtlantic Jazz Festival Website counting down to its debut on Halloween day! www.midatlanticjazzfestival.org #JeffWatts #JeffTainWatts #ChiefTain #Jazz #Drummer #WyntonMarsalis #WyntonMarsalisQuartet #kennykirkland #AMomentInJazz #History #Rhythm #Beat #Festival #Music #JazzFestival #LiveMusic
“Terri Lyne Carrington has remained a powerhouse drummer in jazz since the 1980s but has also vigorously turned her attention over the last 15 years to empowering the next generation. With outstanding versatility, she excels as a composer, bandleader, producer, and educator.” With her astound talent and credibility towards music, we’d like to shift gears with our history reel and shine the spotlight on Terri 🙂 #RealJazz2 If your watching this, hope y’all can make it to this years Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival on Feb. 18-20th at the Hilton Washington DC Rockville hotel! . . . . . #RealJazz2 #TerriLyneCarrington #AaronParks #MatthewStevens #TinyDesk #NPR #SocialScience #Grammy #HerbieHancock #Drummer #SocialJustice #BLM #genderequality #MassIncarceration #PoliceBrutality #Jazz #Music #WomenInJazz #FemaleArtists
This Saturday, we will pick 5 random winners for free tickets to our performance this Sunday at the Keystone Korner Baltimore. It’s not too late to submit your entries to win!! . . Paul Carr & The Legacy Quartet will be performing this Sunday, September 19th at 5PM at the Keystone Korner Baltimore! As we prepare for our performance, we are giving away FREE pairs of tickets through our raffle! Five lucky people will have a chance to win by following the entry guidelines below. . . . Entries to win: ✅ Follow @PaulCarrJazz ✅ Like this post and save ✅ Repost on your story ✅ Tag a friend (Each friend = an extra entry) ✅ Text “Raffle” to 301-747-0486 (considered 5 entries) . . . Better hurry! This giveaway will last only until Saturday, September 18th at 3PM, where we will do a random draw of 5 people! . . . . . #RealJazz2 #PaulCarr #PaulCarrAndTheLegacyQuartet #KeystoneKorner #Baltimore #Giveaway #Tickets #Raffle #EnterToWin #Music #Jazz
Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival Feb 12th-14th Livestream!! Three performances a night $20 or purchase a weekend pass for $55. Your ticket includes artist interviews and a special Panel Discussion. For tickets Please visit midatlanticjazzfestival.org 🎶🎷💕🎶 #realjazz2
Save the Date! MAJF 2020 will be President’s Day Weekend, February 14 through 16, 2020 at the Rockville Hilton Hotel.
MAJF 20/20 : A Look at #RealJazz
2020 will be the 11th Annual Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival! In 2010, the first Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival (MAJF) was launched by the Jazz Academy of Music, Inc., a Maryland non-profit organization, whose mission is to advance and preserve jazz music through education and outreach. MAJF is known for “real jazz” which is Jazz orientated, i.e. Swing Jazz, Bebop Jazz, Latin Jazz, or Funk Jazz. The MAJF’s three day event has been a huge success, with attendance of thousands of jazz lovers each year. Attendees are comprised of listeners, educators, students, parents and musicians. Attendees travel to the festival from points all along the Mid-Atlantic seaboard and beyond.
The MAJF showcases local and touring jazz artists of traditional genres. Also, showcased are the gospel and blues genres that are primary influences of jazz music. One of the most important aspects of the festival is the focus on the education of young musicians. Middle and high school, as well as, collegiate level jazz bands perform at the festival. The students also have the opportunity to attend master classes conducted by the touring musicians that are performing at the festival, film screenings covering legacy musicians, play in open “jam sessions” with professional musicians and of course see the pros in live performances. Many of these opportunities are free and open to the public.
The MAJF programming consists of 3 days of jazz music performances by some of the top musicians in the country. Artists like NEA Jazz Masters Ellis Marsalis, Brian Lynch, Roy Haynes, Delfeayo Marsalis and Jimmy Heath; renowned pianist, the late Mulgrew Miller; saxophonist Bobby Watson and trumpeter Terrell Stafford have graced our stage. In addition, the event has an educational component that include master classes, film screenings and interviews in front of a live audience with some of the more popular performing artists.
The 2020 event will include:
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference,
Maryland AvenueHammer & Stain DIY Workshops - Rockville, MD
Gibbs RoadCity of Rockville Rocktobierfest
Maryland Avenue