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Sixty years ago the drummer who came to notice with Dankworth before a surprise move to Lyttelton opined on Hamp, Herman, Monk and more

Sixty years ago, Denis Preston was lukewarm about Ellington and Basie and scathing about Oscar Peterson but thought Eddie Jefferson wonderful

Home to the popular Jungle Cafe jazz club, San Juan Hill was considered the worst slum in New York City before being destroyed in the 1950s to make way for where Lincoln Center’s 16.3 acre campus now occupies.

for their bodies today wednesday, july 20th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> and good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning. i'm matt lauer. >> and i'm ann curry. as you see, it's 76 degrees already at 7:00 a.m. here in new york city. and new york is one of 32 states under a heat advisory warning today. >> i think you can see that shot from above, the haze that's hanging over the city. apparently a lot of the country is trapped inside what people are calling a heat dome. inside that dome temperatures in the 90s and 100s in areas that aren...

firefighter tony a layerow's body was taken to a van. the silence broken by the rain and his family's tear. the pain hung in the air outside the hospital, a place that was a gathering spot for the hopeful. family and friends had been there around the club. he and the other firefighter were railroad to -- rushed to the hospital after being found in this fire. perez died thursday. >> it's particularly difficult. you're mourning the loss of one, and then to have another one very close, in the same fire, is challenging. >> lisa: for the first time the doctors gave details about the uphil...