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STOKES W. Royal Stokes, 90, an award-winning jazz journalist and author who worked to expand opportunities for women in jazz, died Saturday of myelodysplastic syndrome, a condition related to leukemia. Stokes died at home in Elkins, West Virginia, in the presence of family and with the music of Bunk Johnson playing quietly in the background. Stokes was born in Washington, D.C., in 1930. He grew up in homes in D.C. and Baltimore and on Gibson Island, Maryland, where — at the age of 13 — he heard his first boogie-woogie piano 78s and began his lifelong devotion to jazz music. In 1948, Sto...
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