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Leslie Lieber wants to make it clear: His age is not the issue.
He turned 99 in March, and he quit playing golf last year, and maybe he takes a moment longer to step up onto the bandstand each Friday at noon and take his alto saxophone out of its case.
But none of the above are the reason he is ringing the death knell for Jazz at Noon, the regular end-of-workweek lunchtime jam sessions he founded in 1965 and has been running for the 46 continuous years since then.
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From "Jazz at Noon Is Closing Out a 46-Year Run" by Corey Kilgannon in today's New York Times
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