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...In 1959, the New Orleans Times-Picayune profiled a 17-year-old named Malcolm J “Mac” Rebennack, “a boy with 4,000 songs”....
...It opens with Archy Stallings, a record-shop owner, rifling through a crate of second-hand LPs — full of Donald Byrd, Johnny Hammond and “Melvin Sparks’s first two solo albums”....
...“He doesn’t demonstrate Stevens’ casual corruption but he is also an old-timer like Byrd.”...
...Additional reporting by Paul J Davies...
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