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Biography
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Hal McKusick
Real name: Harold Wilfred McKusick
Effective period / Period of releases: 1956 - 1995
American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist and flutistBorn June 01, 1924 in Medford, Massachusetts, died April 10, 2012 in Sag Harbor, New York
Hal worked in the big bands of Les Brown, Woody Herman (1943), Boyd Raeburn (1944-'45), Alvino Rey (1946), Buddy Rich, Claude Thornhill (1948-'49), Terry Gibbs, Elliot Lawrence and Many others.
Recorded nine albums (1955-1958) as a leader.