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The Latin jazz pianist John Marrero recorded in the ’70s with Bobby Paunetto and wrote the song “Mediterraneo.” He shouldn’t be puzzled with the brand new Orleans jazz banjoist from the same name.

The tune entitled “Initial Tuxedo Rag” by the initial Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra, recorded in the mid-’20s for the OKeh outfit, is known as something of the milestone in banjo history. The person hovering above the banjo mind is none apart from John Marrero, a fresh Orleans indigenous whose family members …