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The Changing Sound of Hotels
New York's grand hotel bars are about swanky cocktails and swinging piano music. But with changes in hotel ownership and audience demographics, some are playing their last song. Joining us is Will Friedwald, jazz and cabaret critic for the New York Sun; and Rich Jenkins, who performs at the St. Regis Hotel and is the chair of the hotel musicians committee for the Local 802 musicians' union.
Weigh in: Do you go out to hotel bars to hear music? If so, what do you like and what don't you like?
A Dying Breed of Crooners by Will Friedwald
St. Regis Hotel Web site
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For years I loved to hear Bobby Short at the Carlyle. It's a part of old NY that's endured - unlike most Greenwich Village folk clubs or punk on the Bowery.
re/ Soundcheck broadcast today, the pianist from The Pierre might have summarized part of her future plans as "You say Dubai, I say Hello!"?
SOUNDCHECK SAYS: Oh my.
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