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The Gotham City Band performs at Zinc Bar in Greenwich Village with Kimberly Hawkey (C) on vocals, bandleader Terry Waldo (L) on piano, and Rickey Alexander on clarinet. Dave Paone/The Epoch Times
The scene in the jazz club was “The Great Gatsby” meets “Sultans of Swing.”
It didn’t play out in “London Town,” but on a summer night in New York City’s Greenwich Village. There was actually a “group of young boys” (well, they were 23) who were there to see a “trumpet-playing band.”