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The End of Elaine's
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
There was a sad changing-times story this week in New York City, where it was big news. Elaine's, the Upper East Side restaurant that for nearly five decades has been a meeting place and hangout for writers, theater and film people and a few musicians, is closing. Elaine Kaufman, who founded the restaurant, died last December. She left it to her manager, Diane Becker, who said business had dropped to the point where she can't keep it going. The last ...
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Elaine Lorillard, 93, a Founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, is Dead
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Michael Ricci
Elaine Lorillard, a socialite who with her husband, Louis, lured jazz greats to their hometown in Rhode Island for a two-day concert series in the summer of 1954, starting the Newport Jazz Festival and creating the model for what became a worldwide circuit of outdoor jazz festivals, died on Monday near her home in Newport. She was 93. Her daughter, Didi Cowley, confirmed the death. It was a casual remark during intermission at a classical concert in Newport in 1953 ...
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Frits Landesbergen Big Band with Madelaine Bell, Laura Fygi and Joke Bruijs
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All About Jazz
