Influential US jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd, who performed alongside the likes of Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock, has died aged 80.

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Over the past couple of years, some of the greatest artists from Motown, from jazz, classical, Broadway have honored us with their performances.

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Along one wall of the 12-seat cafe, piles of freshly imported coffee beans from Ethiopia, Guatemala and Indonesia stood next to stacks of decades-old US records, and the trumpets of jazz musicians Chet Baker and Miles Davis resonated from a vinyl turntable.

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He also treated us to his solo guitar treatments of two jazz standards ("But Beautiful" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"), as well as one of his own solo guitar compositions, "Venezuelan Nights, " from his recent CD The Spice of Life.

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"It was a good win for us, " said Boozer, who played five years with the Jazz.

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In a major coup for the St Regis, Jazz at Lincoln Center opened in October 2012 to massive fanfare, expanding outside the US from its New York-base for the very first time.

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Hilton leaves us on the massage table and our journey through the city is taken forward by jazz singer Paula West.

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