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Richard Gehr | July 06, 2007

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  • The third incarnation of Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub will close Saturday night following a performance by salsa stars Gran Combo. The club opened in 1941 and became a Rat Pack hangout during the fifties, figured prominently in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, and inspired a Barry Manilow hit. Owner John Juliano is considering a move to the Bronx. "It would kill me," he told the Associated Press, "but what are you going to do?"

  • The Section specializes in string versions of Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, and Kiss. But Dead Symphony No. 6: An Orchestral Tribute to the Grateful Dead may well be the first complete symphony devoted to a rock band. Lee Johnson composed the commissioned work, and he conducted the Russian National Orchestra. "The Grateful Dead embodied such a huge swath of the late twentieth century," Johnson told the Associated Press, "that they are just a wonderful place from which to have a symphony in which you can explore and come out with a response to American popular culture."

  • During his June 22 Celebrate Brooklyn performance, Richard Thompson and his son, Teddy, sang Dad's "Persuasion" together. It was the emotional high point of a show marred only by a British rain Thompson père apologized for bringing along. His band performed the following night in Washington D.C., and you can download NPR's podcast of it here.

  • "Why have you chosen to come back now," David Kamp asks Sly Stone in a lengthy feature about the reclusive funkster in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. "'Cause it's kind of boring at home sometimes," Sly replies.

  • The blog Latin Jazz Corner wants to help you start a Latin jazz collection and get up to speed with trumpeters Arturo Sandoval, Brian Lynch, Diego Urcola, and Jerry Gonzalez.

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