The legendary trumpeter Donald Byrd died February 4 in Dover, Del. Byrd, whose career blended jazz, soul, funk and rhythm and blues, was 80.

Vince Scheuerman, eat your heart out. This morning, DCist’s inbox contained a press release announcing an upcoming party kicking off a campaign to adopt a city song for Washington. The effort calls itself, “Come to Washington: A Song for the City,” and it’s thrown its support behind “Come to Washington,” a treacly bit of civic pride penned by Lincoln Ross, a longtime D.C. musician whose past work has included stints with Count Basie and Donald…