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Silas Hubbard Jr., organized, inspired local blues jams

By Kathleen McKenna

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 13, 2012

A blues singer proficient on harmonica and bass, Silas Hubbard Jr. hosted what many considered Boston’s first honest-to-goodness blues jam at the 1369 Jazz Club in Cambridge in the mid-1980s. When the club closed, he moved to different venues as club owners and musicians caught on and copied his approach. “It’s like a bud that you plant, and it comes up in the spring,’’ he said about the blues jam circuit that grew from what he started.

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