Whoa, this was unexpected... a black dude playing Jazz on bagpipes!
Any of you ever heard of Rufus Harley?
I just found out about him the other day when the new Collector's Choice Music catalog came in the mail. There on the back cover of the catalog was this album of a black guy playing bagpipes - that definitely caught my eye (ouch)!
I've listened to some samples of his music & think I'm going to have to pick up at least one of his albums.
Here's a link to his Wikipedia biography. I love the part where it explains that when police would show up from neighbors complaining about him practicing his bagpipes, he'd ask them, "Do I look like I'm Irish or Scottish to you?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Harley
Here's a photo of Rufus on his 1972 album, Re-Creation of the Gods, with him wearing his trademark Viking-style horned helmut & kilt - pretty wild!
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