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Hour 4

At Dizzy's Club at Lincoln Center, is also on Stephanie's itinerary as she moves in 4/4 time to hit as many clubs as possible before sunrise. She's about four hours into her 24 hour adventure and finds, if time allowed, she could spend quite a while at the Café Carlyle.

Jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli plays cabaret with a jazzman's sensibility. Tonight with his wife, songstress Jessica Molaskey, on the stage at the Café Carlyle, the well-heeled club best known as the home of jazz luminary Bobby Short for 40 years. The Carlyle, like the Oak Room and Feinstein's, blends New York's signature musical styles in a swanky setting.

"In a nutshell, it's 42nd Street theater world meets 52nd Street, the jazz world," says Pizzarelli.

Pizzarelli, the son of jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, has traveled the world playing his blend of jazz and song. He says what sets New York apart is the overwhelming variety.

"Well, you know where in most cities around the country have one spot to go to,” says Pizzarelli. “You know where the jazz club is in St. Louis, you know where the jazz club is in Seattle. New York has everything. They have a downtown scene and a late night scene.”

Hour 6

It's just before 10 p.m. downtown at the Village Vanguard, and the downtown scene is already swinging.

Legendary drummer Paul Motian along with headliners Joe Lovano and Bill Friselle make up an all-star trio. Any night of the week each of these jazz stars could headline to appreciative audiences. But all together they deliver a show that grooves like few others.

Hour 7

An hour later, saxman Sherman Irby and his band are making the audience move and groove at Smalls, another downtown hot spot. Irby, who plays with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra as well as leading his own group, has been playing Smalls since he first arrived in New York in the mid-1990s.

This downtown club has a reputation for bringing in young musicians as well as a young crowd.

Hour 8

As the clocks strikes 12, horns are blazing 'round about midnight at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola on the Upper West Side. Known as one of the most beautiful jazz spots in the city, tonight it's Ladies’ Night as the Diva Jazz Orchestra takes the stage with force.

“No question about it the greatest city in the world and this is right here the greatest jazz club in the world bar none, and we’ve been all over the world,” says Stanley Kay, founder of Diva Jazz Orchestra.

Stanley Kay knows great music and a great jazzroom when he hears one. He was the backup drummer and manager for jazz legend Buddy Rich, and was the mastermind behind the Diva Jazz Orchestra, led by Sherrie Maricle.

“He had a concept for this group and we had an audition, and 40 of the greatest women players from everywhere, every country you can imagine, appeared in New York City to form this band,” said Maricle. “And we picked the top 15 and since 1990 we've been forging on since then.”

And our tour of jazz in New York City will forge ahead too.

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