Certainly a case of it’s not what you play it’s how you play it, Rufus Harley is the principal exponent of the bagpipes in jazz. Marv turned me on to Rufus on the occasion of his seventieth birthday; somehow I had managed to miss his existence up to now. Brief bigraphical details and links to articles can be had from the Wikipedia, and some of his music is available on CD reissue.
random thoughts and murmurings…