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Kansas City Five

Banjoist Elmer Snowden, who was simply from Baltimore and Washington and had zero reference to Kansas Town, ran the Kansas Town Five within the 1920s. Cornet participant Bubber Milley, who helped start Duke Ellington’s profession, was the Kansas Town Five’s most well-known member. Snowden began the music group after his …

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