Meet the Artists 2024

Free tickets are available to get an up close and personal look at your favorite DC JazzFest artist. Join us in conversation at the Meet the Artist at Arena Stage.

Entry is subject to availability, please arrive early.

SATURDAY - AUGUST 31, 2024

Coffee with D-Nice

10:00AM | Coffee with D-Nice | Moderator: Sunny Sumter

Terri Lyne Carrington SOLO Interview New  Jazz Standards

11:00AM & 12:15PM | Exhibit and New Jazz Standards | Moderator: Gordan  Chambers

Stanley Clarke N 4ver

1:00PM | Career & Down Beat BlindFold Test | Moderator: Willard Jenkins

Galactic Featuring Anjelika Jelly Joseph, Cima Funk,  Nicholas Payton

2:00PM | Culture in the music from Cuba to New  Orleans, roots and extensions in the music 

Billy Hart, Johnathan Blake, Steve Wilson

3:00PM | Tribute to Billy "Jabali" Hart | Moderator: Rusty Hassan

The ASCAP Foundation with Joe Block (Winner of ASCAP Composer Award)

4:00PM | ASCAP Foundation Conversation | Moderator: Malaika

Ron Carter

5:00PM | How to Audition | Moderator: Willard Jenkins

DCJazzPrix WINNERS!

6:00PM | Interviewing the Winning band: DCJP 2024 | Moderator: Sara Donnelly

SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Bobby Sanabria

12:30PM | Career Highlights of Bobby Sanabria | Moderator: Felix Contreres

NEA JAZZ MASTERS DISCUSSION/ NEA Jazz Masters:  Ron Carter, Dianne Reeves, Kenny Barron, Terri Lyne  Carrington, Willard Jenkins

1:30PM | NEA JAZZ MASTERS CONVERSATION | Moderator: Sunny Sumter

Paolo Fresu, Clovis Nicolas, Joonas Haavisto

3:30PM | International Jazz beyond bondaries | Moderator: Felix Contreres

Katea Stitt Legacy of Sonny Stitt- 

musical direction of saxophonist Davey Yarborough, 

the unit includes tenor saxophonist Ron Holloway, 

vocalist George V. Johnson, 

drummer Keith Kilgo, 

and organist Charles Covington.

5:30PM | 100th Year/Centennial Celebration of  Sonny Stitt conversation with Katea Stitt | Moderator: Felix Contreres