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Hal McKusick

An excellent cool-toned altoist and an intermittent clarinetist, Hal McKusick caused the big rings of Les Dark brown, Woody Herman (1943), Boyd Raeburn (1944-1945), Alvino Rey (1946), Pal Full, and Claude Thornhill (1948-1949). In the 1950s, furthermore to his use Terry Gibbs and Elliot Lawrence, he was a active and …

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