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Rufus Harley

Rufus Harley was jazz’s initial bagpiper, singlehandedly transforming a droning, unwieldy instrument connected nearly exclusively with Celtic customs right into a soulful and deeply religious element of the present day jazz lexicon. Created Might 20, 1936, in Raleigh, NC, Harley spent nearly all his years as a child in Philadelphia, …

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