Music festivals tend to be backloaded, primarily to keep people coming back for more, but as a nice side effect it keeps the most happening stuff fresh for critics who do post-festival wrap-ups. Thus this writer is basking in the afterglow of last night's smash "A Night in Treme"—maybe the first time an event at [...]

Looking back at my wrap-up of last year's festival, a number of the extraordinary circumstances that applied then still apply today. The economy tightened the budget last year, and did so even more this year. Last year, as this year, the fest sacrificed signature concerts (in 2010's case, at the National Mall). And last year [...]

You once knew it as the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival. For all of its five years, in fact. No more.
Festival boss Charlie Fishman reports that there's been a dispute with the Ellington family over the rights to use the name of District jazz's favorite son. Henceforth, then, it shall be known as the DC Jazz [...]