There's a little flavor or Argentina, but this is New York City jazz played by some of the finest players in the Northeast.

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He later took classical lessons and was "discovered" at age 9 by the late New York City jazz aficionado Charles McWhorter, who saw him play at a festival in Siberia.

NPR: Fast-Paced Jazz Piano in the Key of Eldar

My mother died when I was two, so he raised me and my two sisters on his own, paid the bills as a night watchman at the IBM plant in Poughkeepsie after years of playing jazz in New York City.

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The scrumptious Cajun cuisine and sweet jazz of New Orleans may make that city seem the perfect place for a fresh start--but the Big Easy is right now the toughest city in the U.S. for finding employment, according to the online job aggregator Indeed.com.

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Ruffins, who channels Louis Armstrong with his brilliant trumpet playing and clowning vocals, has played Lincoln Center in New York City and will perform for thousands at Jazz Fest in New Orleans.

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Trains, cars and planes have all inspired popular songs, but how did a New York City subway line lead to one of the greatest jazz anthems of all time?

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And so has been the story of jazz, ever since its birth in the vivacious city of New Orleans.

BBC: The birthplace of jazz

Even in New York City, however, you are hard pressed to find country music or classical music or really good jazz programming other than on National Public Radio.

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The sound of jazz from Shanghai's ubiquitous dancing halls, which had once permeated the city until the then new Communist government put a stop to it, has returned after decades of silence.

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