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“On This Day in the History of Recorded Sound…”

February 22, 1880: Born: James Reese Europe, first African-American to lead his own band for a major recording company.

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I have a couple of his Victors and one of his Pathés.edisonplayer.

I love his recording of "Darktown Strutter's Ball" on Pathé