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The secret history of the jazz greats who were freemasons

John Lewis, The Guardian, 2 July 2014

Jazz and freemasonry are unlikely bedfellows, but in the 1950s, the secret society became a support network for musicians and the world's largest fraternity for black men, among them Duke Ellington and Sun Ra

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