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Peanut butter and jelly. Abbott and Costello. New Orleans and marching bands.
Some things are inseparable.
The city best known for hot jazz is a wellspring of talented musicians. Where do they all come from? Oftentimes it's great teachers — like Sam Venable, the band director at Langston Hughes Academy, a middle school on Trafalgar Street.
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