Hip Hop and Jazz Festival

Wednesday, Mar 27, 2024 at 7:30pm

The Kennedy Center
2700 F Street Northwest
202-416-8000

Hip Hop & represents an annual season focus highlighting hip hop’s intersection with other genres, forms, and disciplines. It is dedicated to celebrating the multi-hyphenate and the evolutionary and unexpected ways that hip hop impacts culture.

As we launch our inaugural festival we are excited to celebrate the dynamic relationship between hip hop and jazz over the course of several exciting programs encompassing listening sessions, performances, dance parties, and more.

The Hip Hop & Jazz Festival is dedicated to visionary concert producer, music impresario, and founder and CEO of Revive Music Group, Meghan Stabile.

Schedule:

Hip Hop Listening Sessions: We’ve Got the Jazz - Jazz and Hip Hop Edition

As part of our Hip Hop & … Festival, join us for a very special presentation of our Hip Hop Listening Sessions focused on the intersection between hip hop and jazz! Whether it’s classic hip hop songs with iconic jazz samples, jazz compositions, covers or collaborations, series, or concept projects, we will be exploring the myriad of ways that jazz and hip hop intersect.

Program:
As part of our Hip Hop &… Festival, join us for a very special presentation of our Hip Hop Listening Sessions focused on the intersection between hip hop and jazz! Whether it’s classic hip-hop songs with iconic jazz samples such as Eric B. & Rakim’s “Don’t Sweat the Technique”; A Tribe Called Quest’s “Excursions,” “Jazz (We’ve Got),” and “Electric Relaxation”; Nas’s “The World Is Yours”; De La Soul’s “Stakes Is High”; Pete Rock & CL Smooth’s “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)”; Digable Planets’s “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)”; Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones, Part II”; The Pharcyde’s “Runnin’”; Talib Kweli’s “Get By,” Kendrick Lamar’s “For Free? (Interlude)”; jazz compositions; covers or collaborations like Miles Davis’s “The Doo Bop Song”; Quincy Jones’s “Back on the Block”; the RH Factor’s “Poetry (ft. Q-Tip and Erykah Badu)”; Robert Glasper’s “J Dillalude” and “Black Radio (ft. Yasiin Bey)”; Chief Adjuah’s “Freedom Is a Word (ft. Vic Mensa); series like Guru’s Jazzmatazz; or concept projects like August Greene, we will be exploring the myriad of ways that jazz and hip hop intersect.

Our Hip Hop Listening Sessions: Jazz and Hip Hop Edition features panelists DJ, rapper, producer, and professor DJ Raydar Ellis; multidisciplinary creative and founder of B-FLY Entertainment Paige Hernandez; acclaimed trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music director and founder of the Revive Big Band Igmar Thomas; and more to be announced. It will be moderated by artist, producer, and Guggenheim Fellow Kokayi with sounds by radio personality, DJ, and member of 9th Wonder’s True School Corp DJ Face. It will also be complemented by a live performance set of Hernandez and B-FLY Entertainment’s iconic Liner Notes highlighting the jazz and hip hop continuum through jazz standards, hip hop samples, and liner notes from your favorite artists.

Location: Studio K

Price Range: $20.00 - $35.00

Apr

27

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