What the Old Jazz Band says about Shanghai

The musicians, like their city, have seen both the good times and the bad

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The Old Jazz Band -- average age 82 -- performing at Shanghai’s Fairmont Peace Hotel (Courtesy of Fairmont Peace Hotel)

WILLIAM MELLOR

It was one of those chilly, crystal-clear Shanghai nights in early January and the city's two waterfront skylines -- one futuristic, the other historic -- were glittering inimitably at each other across the Huangpu River, luring two very different species of visitor.

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