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Rufus Harley
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2026-07-31
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Rufus Harley Jr. was an American jazz musician known primarily as the first jazz musician to adopt the Great Highland bagpipe as his primary instrument.
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Shirley Horn + Rufus Harley, Fats Waller, Sun Ra & Ken Peplowski FEATURED ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Flying High – The Styles and Sounds of the Great Female Jazz Vocalists
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Rufus Harley, the First Jazz Musician to Make the Bagpipes His Main Instrument, Performs on I've Got a Secret (1966)
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John Coltrane’s "A Love Supreme" Played With Bagpipes: The Artistry of Rufus Harley
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