January Lecture: Giovanni Russonello, Jazz in DC

Giovanni Russonello, Jazz in DC
January 28
10:30-11:30 AM
Online via Zoom

Giovanni Russonello is a writer, editor, educator and organizer working at the intersection of music, politics and U.S. history. Gio is presently writing a book about Gil Scott-Heron and Washington, D.C., in the 1970s and ’80s, under contract to Metropolitan/Macmillan. A 2024 DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities fellow, he also edits capitalbop.com, an award-winning web magazine covering the D.C. jazz scene, which he co-founded in 2010. The only person to have served as both a politics columnist and a music critic for the New York Times, he has also contributed reporting, reviews and essays to the Atlantic, the Washington Post, NPR Music, JazzTimes, Politico and others. He currently hosts a radio show on WPFW 89.3 FM, spotlighting contemporary jazz and other forms of creative music being made in DC.

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