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Image: Rufus Harley and son America Patton

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Description: Jazz has always been a liberating music that brought unity and hope throughout the world. This picture was taken inside of the historic home of Rufus Harley Jr., who is known as the world's first Jazz bagpipe jazz musician. His home is located in Germantown, Philadelphia PA.. Harley was internationally recognized for adopting the bagpipes into the jazz idiom. In addition to playing jazz on the bagpipes, Harley played various saxophones equally well. He was born in Wake County, North Carolina on May 20th 1936, but moved to Philadelphia PA, with his mother while still in elementary school. He later mastered the saxophone, flute, and bagpipes.
Title: Rufus Harley and son America Patton
Credit: The files with the trumpet player came from the Kansas City, Star news paper, and The local Tulsa news paper. The photos of John Brown came from a online search of Google. The rest are personally taken photos.
Author: Joe Ledford from the Kansas City Star: jledford@kcdstar.com & Joesph Rushmore from Tulso World
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