On Tuesday, Mr. Stranahan took the Village Vanguard stage in guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel's Standards Trio.

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That's precisely when we'll feature the group's debut week at the Village Vanguard.

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Griffin's first booking as a leader at the Village Vanguard came in November 1959.

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Davis had a date at the Village Vanguard and would not perform unless Shirley Horn played first.

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But the essential Beat stop is the time-warp basement venue of the Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village, open since 1935.

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Wednesday night at 9, WBGO and NPR Music present Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos, live at the Village Vanguard.

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Griffin's first booking as a leader at the Village Vanguard came in November 1959, but he moved to Paris in 1963.

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On Tuesday, the rare material will finally be released on "Bill Evans Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate" (Resonance) a two-CD set that rivals Evans's revered Village Vanguard recordings for Riverside in June '61.

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