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Jazz Gillum

Among the pre-eminent Chicago harpists from the pre-war period, Costs “Jazz” Gillum was created Sept 11, 1904 in Indianola, Mississippi. He found the harmonica at age six, and five years afterwards ran abroad to live with family members in close by Charleston. After spending his formative years playing road corners …

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