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Robert “Bootsie” Barnes

Robert “Bootsie” Barnes is an ideal exemplory case of a jazzman who loves local hero position in his city but is small known elsewhere. Because the ’50s, the big-toned, hard-blowing tenor saxman (a cousin from the past due Duke Ellington clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton) continues to be well-known in Philadelphia jazz …

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