1.   Tonight and for the following two nights we are privileged to welcome a quintet of American musicians specially brought together for the Guinness Spot in association with Frank Tate.

2.   American musicians from the Temptations to Bruce Springsteen boycotted the resort.

3.   American musicians have a far weaker role than their counterparts abroad.

4.   And the fourth, La Villa, the Village Vanguard of Paris, books the best American jazz musicians, weekly, with few exceptions.

5.   At events around the city American musicians were getting a feel for the power of Cuban music and its bacchanalian spirit.

6.   Barney Wilen, a French saxophonist who performed regularly with American jazz musicians, died on Saturday.

7.   Both men are gifted American musicians with blossoming international careers.

8.   Brady, a recent graduate of the Mannes College of Music in Manhattan, is apparently the first American musician to have been a resident in a Russian orchestra.

9.   A handful of American jazz musicians made the trip.

10.   Brady learned what it was to be a Russian musician by putting up with grueling conditions that would have prompted unionized American musicians to go on strike.