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Sophisticated lady, sophisticated lady ...
She is hip to politics but loves her jazz
She's got lots of rhythm she's got lots of class ...
-- "Sophisticated Lady," by Chuck Jackson, Marvin Yancy and Natalie Cole"
Sunday is Mother's Day, a time for husbands, sons and daughters to wonder what changes they can ring on the yearly celebration. The answer: Take the sophisticated lady out for "a little night music." When it comes to jazz in the Washington area, the options are abundant.
From pricey supper clubs to church basements, the venues come in every stripe and hue, with cover prices from free to stratospheric.
The music, too, springs from a cornucopia of style and content, ranging from the newest funk-inflected rap-jazz to classics straight out of the '20s, '30s and '40s to experimental stuff for which no words seem to suffice.
The scene offers new faces as well as performers who have been around forever, part of a local artistic community driven or at least informed by the desire to make homegrown music that honors the long jazz traditions going back to native son Duke Ellington.
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