Our City. Our Music. Our Writers. Featuring Maurice Jackson and Willard Jenkins
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Wednesday, Mar 12, 2025
Location
Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital
921 Pennsylvania Ave SE
Details
Georgetown University Professor Maurice Jackson has just published Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality. He will also talk about DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC., which he co-edited. This book comprehensively chronicles the overlooked and pivotal role our city played in this seminal American music. DC was not only home to profoundly influential jazz musicians, promoters, and institutions, our city’s vibrant jazz scene helped to hasten desegregation.
NEA Jazz Master Willard Jenkins will talk about Ain’t But a Few of Us. Black Music Writers Tell Their Story, noted by reviewers as superb, overdue, and vital reading for any jazz fan. Though performers and innovators in this genre are overwhelmingly African American, Black music writers and editors are woefully underrepresented.
