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From: The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) | Date: April 9, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Jeff Miers

Apr. 9--Mark Goldman, Buffalo historian, author and entrepreneur, stopped dead in his tracks. The last thing he expected to hear on a city street corner while wandering through the heavy traffic and heat of the annual Allentown Art Festival was the sound of gypsy jazz -- the lambent, wistful, but spirited tones of Paris in the 1930s.

But there it was. Unmistakable, vibrant, swinging, a non-sequitur in a local music scene that by 2004 Goldman had begun to see as fractured, scattered, and frankly, tired.

"In Buffalo, you have a lot of cover bands ...

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