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Posted By: GUEST,Joseph Scott
19-May-15 - 05:17 PM
Thread Name: Earliest jazzers how blues-interested?
Subject: RE: Earliest jazzers how blues-interested?

And if they had an actual source, in say 1897, why not say "1897" rather than "1890s"?