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When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.
Albert Murray
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Albert Murray
Age: 97 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 12
Died: 2013
Died: August 18
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Albert L. Murray
Albert Lee Murray
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