Reviews by Alan Greenblatt

• Federal Jazz Commission ends 25 year run at Colonel Brooks' Tavern 6/24/08
• Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary All-Stars 3/8/08
• Area Jazz Festivals in September 9/14/07
• Gilberto Gil at Lisner Auditorium 3/23/07
• Audra McDonald at the Kennedy Center 3/20/07
• Dick Hyman at the Kennedy Center 3/14/07
• Bill Charlap at the Library of Congress 12/1/06
• Cedar Walton at the Montpelier Arts Center 10/13/06
• SF Jazz 3/27/06
• Jack Teagarden's 100th birthday 9/20/05
• Wynton Marsalis at 2nd Annual Silver Spring Jazz Festival 9/10/05
• New Orleans 9/6/05
• Victor Dvoskin at the Tabard Inn 8/1/05
• SMJO 6/21/05
• Roy Haynes 3/14/05
• Valentines Weekend 2/12/05
• Jimmy Heath at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club 1/14/05
• CBC Annual Meeting 9/14/04
• James Williams 7/26/04 (by Jonathan Sanoff)
• Newport Jazz All-Stars 2/16/04
• More Tributes 2/9/04
• Everything is a tribute concert now 1/24/04
• Al's Venue Guide 1/16/04
• Dave Brubeck at the Library of Congress 10/3/03
• Hank Jones, Elvin Jones and Andrew White 9/29/03
• Mark Gross at Twins 9/16/03
• Somebody Declared This The Year of the Blues! 9/10/03
• "Jazz on a Summer's Day" at the AFI, 6/11/03
• Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival 5/9/03
• Smithsonian tribute to Bix Beiderbecke 4/23/03
• Karrin Allyson at the KC Jazz Club 3/19/03
• Peter Cincotti's DC Debut 1/31/03
• Chucho Valdes with David Sanchez and Roy Hargrove at Lisner Auditorium 1/29/03
• Jim Cullum tribute to Peck Kelly featuring Dick Hyman 1/17/03
• Shemekia Copeland At the Birchmere 12/16/02
• CDs For A Jazz Fan - Look No Further 12/11/02
• Dee Dee Bridgewater at the Kennedy Center 10/25/02
• KC Jazz Club 9/9/02
• Barbara Cook at the Kennedy Center 8/20/02
• Elvis Presley & Groucho Marx 8/19/02
• "The Jackie Wilson Story," GypsySoul, Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet and more...8/7/02
• Brasil: as coisas do Samba at the Warehouse Theater 6/14/02
• Paquito D'Rivera at the Library of Congress 5/31/02
• Stefon Harris at the Library of Congress 5/13/02
• A Documentary about Willie "The Lion" Smith 5/3/02
• Salute to the Modern Jazz Quartet 3/28/02
• DC, A Major Music Capitol 3/10/02
• A Sunday At Bangkok Blues
• Junior Mance at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater 12/4/01
• Cada Vez and the Imax Jazz Cafe 11/19/01
• Herbie Hancock at Washington DC's Warner Theater 10/20/01
• Sherman, Sloan, Byrne and Lea at the Corcoran Gallery of Art 10/7/01
• David "Fathead" Newman at Twins Jazz 9/22/01
• Eric Alexander at Twins Jazz 9/8/01
• Federal Jazz Commission at Colonel Brooks' Tavern 9/5/01
• Cesaria Evora at Wolf Trap 6/28/01
• Kennedy Center Tribute to Stanley Turrentine 6/10/01
• Steve Turre and the Latin Jazz All-Stars at Blues Alley 5/31/01
• Manny Bobenrieth at the IDB Cultural Center 5/17
• Book Review: Lush Life, by David Hajdu
• Winard Harper at Twins 4/24/01
• Abbey Lincoln at the Terrace Theater 4/5/01
• Kodo Drummers at Constitution Hall 3/22/01
• Chuck Redd at Blues Alley 2/28/01
• Ellis Marsalis at the Kennedy Center 2/15/01
• Etta Jones at the Kennedy Center 2/11/01
• Mark Murphy at Blues Alley 1/18/01
• Greg Osby at the Kennedy Center 1/9/01
• George Shearing at the Kennedy Center 12/5/00
• Play On at Arena Stage 12/4/00
• Lou Donaldson at the Kennedy Center 11/28/00
• Andy Bey at the Kennedy Center 11/13/00
• Barbara Cook at the Kennedy Center 10/24/00
• Leon Russell at State Theater 10/20/00
• Scott Hamilton at Bohemian Caverns 9/16/00
• Shirley Horn at Yoshi's in Oakland 8/28/00
• Eric Felton at Felix and Dixieland Direct at 219 - 8/7/00
• Daryl Sherman and Dave McKenna at Blues Alley 7/27/00
• Dave Stryker and Steve Slagle at Blues Alley 7/11/00
• Cassandra Wilson at Wolf trap 6/29
• Joni Mitchell at Merriweather Post Pavilion 5/25
• Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra/Tribute to Mary Lou Williams 5/16/00
• "Last Swing of the Century." 4/18/00
• Lew Tabackin/Kennedy Center 3/10/00
• Sunny Sumter/Kennedy Center 3/6/00
• Jeff "Tain" Watts and Branford Marsalis/Blues Alley 2/6/00
• James Moody/Kennedy Center 2/1/00
• Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross/Kennedy Center
• Ruby Braff
• Chico Freeman/Kennedy Center
• Philip Glass/Kennedy Center
• Sideman/Kennedy Center
• Tony Bennett/Diana Krall at Wolf Trap
• Mangwana/Smithsonian's Baird Auditorium
• Caetano Veloso/Warner Theater.

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