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When I was growing up in Los Angeles in the 60’s, I was often present at parties my family would have with their friends and other relatives. The music at these parties was usually jazz or sophisticated urban blues like Ray Charles, Arthur Prysock, Hank Crawford, etc., and the atmosphere was always raucous and free-spirited. When I was old enough to start going to jazz clubs in L.A. on my own, I found the atmosphere much more sedate and restrained. The audience sat at tables or the bar and clapped politely as the band performed their set. The same was true when I moved to New York in 1990 and started frequenting the jazz clubs in Greenwich Village.
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