Chuck Brown performs atop Anacostia's Big Chair in 2003. Photo by Steven M. Cummings. Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Before he became the "Godfather of Go-Go," Charles "Chuck" ...

How appropriate that the live disc in the two-CD set "The Best of Chuck Brown" kicks off with one D.C. legend's take on a classic work by another: Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't ...