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In the 1920s, a young bandleader named Duke Ellington galvanized audiences at Harlems Cotton Club with infectiously rhythmic dance tunes that came to be known as jungle music because of their supposed resemblance to the music of Africa.https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2003/11/15-jazz2-450-1.jpg