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James Reese Europe (February 22, 1881 \u2013 May 9, 1919) was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer. He was the leading figure on the African Americans music scene of New York City in the 1910s. Eubie Blake called him the “Martin Luther King of music”.<\/p>\n
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