EBT Interview and Performance on DCN’s “The Sound”

Promotion and Success seem to travel in 2 ways: you work your way to the top, get there and shine or you get elevated prematurely and learn to fly once pushed out the nest.   In the Summer of 2001 The EBT was certainly learning to fly.   Having recently become Jazz Ambassadors via the…

The Eric Byrd Trio have reached an agreement with Allyn Johnson and his Divine Order Studios to record their new project, “20” this July. “What can be said about Allyn Johnson?  He is the consummate musician, probably the best pianist in this or any other area,” says Eric Byrd.  “He has always been a standard…

To celebrate the 100th birthday of the great Nat King Cole, the DC Jazz Festival will be programming artists at the Millennium Stage inside the Kennedy Center in June of 2019.  Artistic Director Willard Jenkins has been in negotiations with the EBT to perform a set of vocal jazz on Father’s Day in 2019.  This…

  The Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC), an agency of the Maryland Department of Commerce, announced today that $290,000 has been awarded to 50 Maryland artists through the 2020 Independent Artist Awards (IAA). With awards this year focused on performing arts, 2020 awardees represent a diverse range of artistic talent from across the state – from…