James Reese Europe
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1881 – 1919
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Who was James Reese Europe?
James Reese Europe was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer. He was the leading figure on the African-American music scene of New York City in the 1910s. Eubie Blake called him the "Martin Luther King of music."
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