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Greatly influenced simply by Benny Goodman, Stan Hasselgård was an ill-fated Swedish clarinetist who centered on swing in the later ’30s and ’40s, yet started exploring bebop toward the finish of his life. Actually, he was one of the primary musicians to try out bop in the clarinet. The jazzman …

Steve “The Deacon” Hunter was created in 1948 in Decatur, IL, beginning his professional profession as an associate of Mitch Ryder’s Detroit in 1971, his electric guitar audio redesigning the Lou Reed basic “Rock and roll & Move,” developing a cult strike and offering Ryder an underground cachet that this …