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British bagpiper Scott Joplin’s jazz career began when he was 10 years old and ended when he left home for college.“The first time I saw a jazz trumpet was on a friend’s birthday, so I knew I had to try it,” he said.“I was just about 14, so my parents got me a bass and […]
Jazz bagpipers have been around for thousands of years, and it has become so ingrained in the way we hear music that we tend to take for granted the ability to compose our own music.It took us a long time to find out how to create and play our own jazz bagpipe, and we’ve been […]