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TIL in 1955 jazz musician Wardell Gray - who played with Count Basie and Benny Goodman - was scheduled to play the opening night of the Moulin Rouge Hotel in Vegas, the first integrated hotel-casino in the city. Gray never played and his body was found in the desert, with his death still a mystery.

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