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Cornetist/bandleader born Joe "King" Oliver in New Orleans, LA., 1885.
Pianist/composer Carla Bley born 1938 in Oakland, CA.
Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and alto saxophonist Charlie Parker record Shaw ’Nuff 1945
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