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Coronavirus fight in New York very different from Australia as jazz musician Troy Roberts reflects on escape

On a sun-drenched autumn day, Troy Roberts has never felt closer to or further from home.

It is just weeks since the gifted Perth-born jazz saxophonist and composer fled his Harlem apartment in New York City and scrambled aboard a crammed flight of anxious Australians as coronavirus enveloped the city.

He had just returned from his latest tour and headed to his last gig at New York's Birdland jazz club, but he could see the pulse of the city that never sleeps starting to weaken.

Clubs were closing. Streets were emptying. People were first anxious, and then fearful, of what the virus might do to them and those they loved.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-27/coronavirus-fight-in-new-york-different-from-australia/12181004

 Perth musician Troy Roberts looks up at the sky.

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