Bluesman.........dress blues and tennis shoes.......

Buck Hill was a prolific jazz performer and a career mailman.

Mikaela Lefrak / WAMU

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A man in a U.S. Postal Service uniform leans against a brick wall at 14th and U Streets NW. He’s playing a tenor saxophone, with his mailbag resting at his feet. He’s also nine stories tall.