Swing Beat: Alfred Yun Was Canceled at the Kennedy Center. Then He Wasn’t.

Swing Beat: Alfred Yun Was Canceled at the Kennedy Center. Then He Wasn’t.

On March 6, Centreville-based jazz pianist and composer Alfred Yun emailed his band Flowers for Palestine. The band’s March 21 show at the Kennedy Center had been canceled by “someone higher up … because I am ‘too controversial,’” Yun wrote. He told his bandmates he’d been asked instead to do a performance of jazz standards, but he declined.  “I don’t feel comfortable performing there without pointing out their censorship,” Yun continued. “I rea…