Charles Fishman, 66, is D.C.’s jazz man. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Fishman retired from managing such legends as Dizzy Gillespie a few years ago and helped found D.C.’s annual Duke Ellington Jazz Festival. Now 66, Fishman lives in Adams Morgan. He’s already at work on the2008 festival, scheduled to run Oct. 1-7.

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