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Biography
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Maurice Purtill
Real name: Maurice Purtill
American jazz drummer, born May 4, 1916 in Huntington, New York State, died March 9, 1994 in Ridgewood, New Jersey.Purtill worked with lesser-known orchestras in New York in the mid-1930s, then with Red Norvo, Glenn Miller (1937, 1939-1942) and Tommy Dorsey (1938-1939). After World War II mostly as a session musician in New York.