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Andy Kirk

Andy Kirk was never a significant musician (actually he hardly ever really soloed), arranger or character yet he was an effective big bandleader within the 1930s and ’40s. He began playing bass sax and tuba in Denver with George Morrison’s music group in 1918. In 1925, he shifted to Dallas …

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