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Pianist/composer Mary Lou Williams records Russian Lullaby with trumpeter Frankie Newton, 1944.
Bassist/composer/bandleader Charles Mingus records Haitian Fight Song 1957
Pianist Sir Charles Thompson born 1918 in Springfield, OH.
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