The historic club couldn’t overcome financial difficulties and disputes with its landlord.

DCist profiles saxophonist Brent Birckhead, September’s Artist-in-Residence at Bohemian Caverns.

When the biggest names in jazz come to D.C., they generally play Blues Alley or the Kennedy Center, choosing the sterility of Georgetown or the concert hall setting and thereby only increasing the separation between jazz and the community from which it originated. But back in jazz’s heyday, if you wanted to hear the best jazz in the District, you had to go to U Street. Unfortunately, with the death of Dr. King and…