The Seventh Annual
CapitalBop DC Jazz Loft Series
at the DC JazzFest

presents...

ODEAN POPE'S SAXOPHONE CHOIR
with the Reginald Cyntje Group
live at NYU in DC's Abramson Family Auditorium

8:30 p.m. doors
9:00 p.m. Reginald Cyntje Group
10:30 p.m. Odean Pope's Saxophone Choir

Odean Pope is a living legend of Philadelphia’s jazz scene, with a distinctive, quicksilver tenor saxophone sound that skates between gospel-inflected, straight-ahead jazz playing and unbounded expressionism. He founded the Saxophone Choir exactly 40 years ago, and CapitalBop is honored to present this storied ensemble in the final event of the 2017 DC Jazz Loft Series.

The first set will come from Reginald Cyntje, a remarkable trombonist and composer who has been called “one of the most prominent composer-bandleaders of the mid-Atlantic” by NPR Music.

Pope’s set will begin shortly after the close of DC JazzFest at the Yards’ free, opening-night concert. Patrons of the Yards concert will be encouraged to attend Odean Pope’s set after the outdoor show ends, and they will receive discounted admission to the CapitalBop concert (so long as it has not sold out).

The performance of Odean Pope Saxophone Choir, presented in collaboration with Arts for Art, Inc. and Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, is supported, in part, by Presenter Consortium for Jazz, a program of Chamber Music America funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

The CapitalBop DC Jazz Loft Series is funded in part by the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.