"Learned to Surf" is evidence that a band can age gracefully if it can just hang on to its nerve.

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The South Carolina native started with his father's big band at the age of 14.

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Fascinated by the '20s and '30s, she traveled at age 16 to Williams College in Massachusetts to visit the archives of jazz-age band leader Paul Whiteman.

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They bear names like Por Larranaga and Maria Guerrero, and when Parisi holds one to the light you can see a little green from age has discolored the band.

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The judge - who observed at the start of the case last Friday that fans were hardly likely to confuse one band with the other in view of the age difference - described the settlement as "very sensible".

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She started her musical career at age 18 in the distortion-heavy band Eric's Trip (named for a Sonic Youth song), and in the dozen years since she began to put out solo records, she's found ways to use instrumentation to explore the frayed edges of heartache and longing.

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He was born into a brass band family and was taught to play the cornet at the age of four by his father.

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Jezegabel also grew up outside Paris, the son of a newspaper editor and a lawyer. (In addition to a lot of silver jewelry and a black onyx ring, he wears a vintage Timex compass watch with a grosgrain band.) Unlike Jourden, he's worked on bikes from an early age and has never held an office job.

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Mr. Powell recalled taking the Jazzfest stage in 1970, at age 8, to play a tune with Danny Barker's Fairview Baptist Church Band.

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