Reeves Sings Tonight at Lincoln ; Jazz Lets Grammy Winner 'Stretch, Discover'

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Every one of the historic Lincoln Theatre's 1,237 seats has been sold for Dianne Reeves' concert tonight, according to the spokeswoman for the Washington Performing Arts Society, which is co- presenting the event with the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival (which takes place in September and won't have Miss Reeves on its bill).

The WPAS last hosted the multiple Grammy-winner in 1994, but Miss Reeves hasn't exactly been a stranger to the District in the intervening years. There have been annual performances at the Kennedy Center, including 2005's "Billie & Me," a musical tribute to the late Billie Holiday, which also featured Rita Coolidge, Joan Osborne, Niki Haris and Rokia Traore.

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Reeves Sings Tonight at Lincoln ; Jazz Lets Grammy Winner 'Stretch, Discover'

"I always love playing in D.C.," Miss Reeves says during a phone chat from her Denver home, one of several interviews squeezed into a jam-packed schedule.

Amid all the activity, the star, who tu...

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