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Colorado music icon Charles Burrell, the ‘Jackie Robinson of classical music,’ dies at 104

Whatever folks knew about renowned classical and jazz bassist Charles Burrell – that he was one of the first Black musicians to sign with an American symphony, that he played alongside the likes of jazz greats Billie Holliday and Duke Ellington or that he was a cornerstone of Denver’s music scene – the man himself was exponentially more.

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