How two Turkish brothers helped integrate DC’s music scene

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WAMU’s Mikaela Lefrak has the story of how Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun of Atlantic Records fame played a role in integrating Washington, DC’s jazz scene in the 1930s and 40s.

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