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Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe Gives Detroiters A Taste of N.Y.
May 5, 2008
Source: Crain's Detroit Business

As a teenager on New York's 52nd Street, Gretchen Valade got her first tastes of jazz. Now she wants to share her experience with residents of the Motor City, having opened the Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe in Grosse Point Farms.

"New York has a feeling for jazz music that we lost somewhere, but to me, Detroit is jazz," Valade told Crain's Detroit Business. "We want to bring that enthusiasm back, like what we used to have."

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