Paul Curreri is a young musician whose new album, California, comes out this month.
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He said Byrd took him "under his wings" when he was a struggling musician in New York, even letting him sleep on a sofa-bed in his Bronx apartment for several years.
But he's also a New Yorker with a New York musician's characteristic enthusiasm for blending avant-garde and pop sensibilities.
Fortunately, though, almost anyone can at least aspire to be a musician, and a new study backs up this seemingly obvious connection between attractiveness and playing an instrument.
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During a brief stay in Brooklyn, Jake (Jake Rabinbach), a young Memphis musician (and native New Yorker), connects with Lucy (Shannon Esper), a young actress he persuades to come down South and pay him a visit.
And now a word from contributor and musician David Was about a new, very high-tech guitar.
Wright, who is also an amateur musician, is looking at new job opportunities for the future.
The musician has also hired a new, all-female band, and performed a handful of surprise concerts in his hometown of Minneapolis.
Musician Amanda Palmer has a new collaboration model for her music: her fans should pay what they think her music is worth.
The singer told the Jamie and Louise programme her new album, which she worked on with her new partner, musician Jonathan Powell, was "raw and honest".
An Emmy Award-winning musician, Buffett debuted a new song meant to raise awareness of and inspire action against human trafficking and sexual abuse of girls and women.
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Almost every top-name musician in the world knows about New Orleans musicians, and that's no doubt about it.
Some credit the rise of jazz-studies programs in colleges and universities for creating a new breed of jazz musician.
"It's very powerful music, " says Shawn Bosler, a New York writer and musician.
Musician and writer David Was on a new retrospective of the work of Nina Simone, who died two years ago.
As well as working on his new album, the Scottish musician has recently produced tracks for Dizzee Rascal and Kylie Minogue, as well as supplying remixes for Katy Perry, Primal Scream and Passion Pit.
Next up, things get a bit animated with Packing for Mars author Mary Roach, who will discuss the grosser side of manned space travel, while professional prognosticator (and sometimes rock musician) John Roderick kicks off his new reoccurring segment by explaining how space exploration helps him get out of bed in the morning.
They also caught a rare performance by folk musician Rodriguez, who is featured in a new award winning film Searching for Sugarman.
One of them was a 23-year-old musician who can't afford to stay in New Orleans unless - if it weren't for Habitat because the rent's gotten so high.
He has filed at least 75 cases this year on behalf of his new client, Michael DiPirro, a jazz musician who got a job as an investigator with Chanler's firm while dating the office receptionist.
Simon Boyar, music professor at New York University, doesn't see himself as a classical musician.
Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger has sung in Sanskrit on a new album by a supergroup, which stars Oscar-winning Indian musician AR Rahman.
If you are writing about highly skilled musicians, you have to redefine your readers' notions of music, to present it, via your characters, in a new light to make readers hear it the way a musician would.
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People who signed agreements are "salivating over the possibility of being able to make an attack, " says Jeffrey Cohen, a New York lawyer who has represented high-profile divorce clients including musician Lou Reed and author Joseph Heller.
The BBC Young Musician of the Year Award has launched its 2014 talent search, which includes a new Jazz Award.
After struggling as a musician, his first break came in 1972 when his composition Everybody Rejoice (A Brand New Day) was included in the hit Broadway musical The Wiz.
Supreme Court judge Sonia Sotomayor, singer Jennifer Lopez and the former jazz musician Tito Puente are all of Puerto Rican descent, though all three were born in New York.
The musician played at events across the US from folk festivals to the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York and recorded some 60 albums, with his most popular songs including Tom Dooley, Shady Grove and Rising Sun Blues.
Mr. RAYMOND WILLIAMS (Trumpet, Hot 8 Brass Band): I'd like to just go back on the history of the music because coming up as a young musician, I didn't know much about the music - the history of the New Orleans' music or just music in general - how the music developed here in America.
He returned to New York to a ticker-tape parade - the first time for a classical musician.
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