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Dick Meldonian is an excellent swing-based soloist who hasn’t gained very much popularity but offers always impressed his fellow music artists. He began playing clarinet when he was eight and tenor at 11. Meldonian led his 1st group in 1944 and officially became a specialist in 1949. Early organizations included …

A talented bop alto soloist, Joe Maini was a colorful personality whose erratic personal lifestyle and senseless early loss of life prevented him from fulfilling his potential. In early stages Maini toured using the big rings of Alvino Rey and Johnny Bothwell, and he was briefly with Claude Thornhill in …