Texarkana-born trumpeter Lammar Wright Sr. helped create Kansas City Jazz
TEXARKANA -- Every resident knows -- or should know -- Texarkana's distinction as the birthplace of Scott Joplin, the man who more than any other transformed ragtime, the music of Midwestern saloons and bordellos, into a stately style recognized the world over as "classical" music in every sense.
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