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James 'Jim' Reese Europe

Born: 22nd February 1880, Mobile, Alabama, United States

Died: 9th May 1919, Boston, Massachutts, United States

Nationality: American

James Reese Europe sometimes known as Jim Europe, 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".

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