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Turk Murphy, a trombonist and founding father of the traditional jazz revival that began in the San Francisco area in the 1940's, died of cancer Saturday at his home in San Francisco. He was 71 years old. 

Mr. Murphy was the only key figure of the jazz-revival movement who still led a band playing the music of that revival. 

In January, he played not only his first engagement in New York in more than a quarter of a century, but also made his Carnegie Hall debut, playing to an enthusiastic audience that filled the hall and overflowed onto the stage.