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Ray Brown

CTL-E-5124 · Person · musician · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship recipient, 1995.

Notes

CTL-JAZZ-056 alternate identifier. Collection: African American jazz artists (CTL-JAZZ-100 dataset, 2026-10-08).

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Record CTL-E-5124 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 1 source · CTL research: MUSIC-001.
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