James Reese Europe brought jazz to Europe, and organized the first jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.

It is starting with a sold-out show from Q-Tip and Jason Moran, respectively the Kennedy Center’s artistic director for hip hop and jazz.

“They’re deeper than passions, they’re also experiments,” the Artistic Director for Jazz says of the Jason + series.

DCist interviewed curators Jason Moran and Ben Ashworth to preview Finding A Line, the Kennedy Center’s take on skate culture.

Harlem Lights/U Street Nights is the first collaboration between the theaters. DCist spoke with curator and pianist Jason Moran about the program.

Tonight marks the start to the Kennedy Center’s jazz season, and the first with Artistic Adviser Jason Moran at the helm. DCist interviewed Moran to get his thoughts on his new gig.

FRIDAY: >> It’s raining, and you’ve got some serious partying to do tomorrow night, so we’d recommend taking in a movie and saving your strength. Don’t miss our movie picks for the weekend here, including special Halloween screenings of Nosferatu at the AFI Silver Theater. Also of note tonight, The American City Diner screens Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho at 8:30 p.m. >> If you’re more in the mood for getting your eardrums absolutely destroyed, Japanese metal…

The Washington Performing Arts Society (WPAS) is presenting an exciting double bill of adventurous piano-based jazz this Sunday at Lisner Auditorium. Performing will be The Bad Plus (pictured right) and pianist Jason Moran (pictured below), two acts who consistently refuse to be limited by traditional notions of what a jazz performance should or should not be. Moran and The Bad Plus have played together on the same bill before and, unsurprisingly, their common outside-the-box approach…