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Duke, Pops, Basie suffered slings, slurs: critics flip-flopped, icons defied analysis

May 3, 2024

Insults couldn’t pierce the thick skin of musicians like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong or Count Basie, long accustomed to bigoted slurs and…

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