Live Jazz in Washington, D.C.

Trombonist Ben Patterson, a longtime member of the Airmen of Note, brings Air Force discipline and classic swing to his playing.

Local musicians lead a jam session at Takoma Station, a bar that was a hotbed for the straight-ahead scene in the 1980s and ’90s.

Veteran straight-ahead saxophonist and flautist Lew Tabackin performs with D.C. bassist Obasi Akoto.

Baltimore-based Latin jazz outfit Rumba Club performs a mix of styles for the dancing-inclined.

Local musicians lead a jam session at Takoma Station, a bar that was a hotbed for the straight-ahead scene in the 1980s and ’90s.

Trumpeter Kenny Rittenhouse has led ensembles of various sizes around the DMV for two decades, and is a member of many others (including the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra). Rittenhouse specializes hard-bop a la Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers under Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan and his groups deliver swinging takes on the standards and the members’ originals. Here he leads a quintet alongside D.C.-based trumpeter Ally Haney Albrecht.

New York City-based Reggae Soul band, Leon & The Peoples, performs at part of Takoma Station’s Worldbeat Night, presented by Jazz Kitchen Productions.

Local musicians lead a jam session at Takoma Station, a bar that was a hotbed for the straight-ahead scene in the 1980s and ’90s.