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Jazz players keep a beat with a ping-pong paddle

By Aidan Levy | The New York Times | Updated: 2010-10-10 09:08

Jazz players keep a beat with a ping-pong paddle

Jazz musicians seem to excel at ping-pong. Dan Tepfer, a pianist, competes at a jazz club. Below, Aaron Goldberg, another ping-pong player, on piano. Photographs by TY Cacek for The New York Times

It was 1:30 a.m. on a balmy Friday and the jazz musicians were still swinging. An air of sweat and cheap beer pervaded the dank walls of Fat Cat, a basement jazz club-cumpool hall in New York's West Village.

Jazz players keep a beat with a ping-pong paddle

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