Following the spectacular success of last year’s premiere, the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival has put together a fabulous line-up and program for 2006, which will take place in venues throughout Washington, DC, from October 4th through 8th.

The program has been expanded, and we are pleased that, in addition to the Kennedy Center and Smithsonian Jazz Café, new Festival partners include the Library of Congress; the National Gallery of Art; the Inter-American Development Bank; the National Museum of Women in the Arts; the Duke Ellington School of the Arts; the Washington Performing Arts Society; and the embassies of France, Israel and Mexico.