The index for our fourth interview in the project, with bassist Corcoran Holt. Corcoran Holt was raised in the Petworth and Sixteenth Street Heights neighborhoods. His parents instilled a love of a wide range of music in him from an early age – as well as the importance and value of community – and his father introduced him to music through a west-African drum class when Holt was 4. He would then start playing bass at age 10 while his parents took him to local jazz clubs to see some of the great D.C. bass players like Butch Warren and Keter Betts. After attending elementary school in northeast D.C. and middle school in Maryland, Holt enrolled in the Duke Ellington School of the Arts for high school. It was there that he began to more deeply hone his craft and professionalism under Davey Yarborough and meet jazz icons like Wynton Marsalis and Reggie Workman, who would help inspire his musicianship. While playing shows around the city in high school, Holt became aware of the Westminster Presbyterian Church's Friday night jazz concerts and stressed the importance of them as beacons of excellence and inspiration to younger musicians like him. He went on to study bass with Michael Bowie at Shenandoah University before moving to New York to study at Queens College for graduate school. In his time in New York and D.C., he became a reliable, well-known musician who now frequently tours the world with saxophonist Kenny Garrett. Holt, who performed his first headlining concert at Westminster in March 2022, talks about the changes he's seen in D.C. broadly because of gentrification, as well as the impact on the jazz scene and why Westminster’s continued existence is so important to the jazz community.