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Billy Jones, Baby’s All Right Owner and Key Player in New York Music Scene, Dead at 45

Billy Jones, the owner of Baby's All Right and a key player in the New York music scene, has died at age 45.

All those memories, and many more, are the legacy of Billy Jones, the club co-owner who died Saturday of what a spokesperson for the venue called “a highly aggressive case of glioblastoma,” a malignant brain tumor. Dev Hynes played a New Year’s Eve party there, and the club also hosted early shows by SZA, Beach House, and Ariel Pink. Jones himself looked the part of an indie entrepreneur; one report described him as wearing “denim bell bottoms with the messy haircut of a 20-something.” But he was also admirably ambitious.

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