Bruce Boyd Raeburn Biography

Bruce Boyd Raeburn is the curator of the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University and is working on a study of early American jazz historians. He is a professional drummer with various rock, R&B, and jazz groups and serves on the National Park Service Jazz Advisory Commission, which studies ways to commemorate the early development of jazz in New Orleans. Dr. Raeburn's upbringing (son of a bandleader and a jazz vocalist) and musical experience have given him extremely eclectic tastes. He advocates the broadest possible appreciation of American vernacular music as essential to understanding any particular aspect of it.



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