LAST December, in a canvas tent erected on a building site in rural east Mississippi, Haley Barbour worked the dirt-floored space as deftly as Sonny Rollins on a saxophone.

去年12月，在密西西比州东部乡村一处建筑工地上的帆布棚里，海利•巴伯整理着泥土地面，麻利得仿若桑尼·罗林斯在弹奏萨克斯。

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By the time he was 19, he was recording with Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins.

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