Barney Rappaport (March 25, 1900 – October 12, 1970) was an American orchestra leader and

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...

musician from the 1920s to the 1940s. Rapp married Ruby Wright in 1936.

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