Posting about Hal McKusick yesterday and re-reading my interviews with him, I was reminded of arranger George Handy. They were good friends and wound up in Los Angeles together in the mid-1940s following an impulsive decision. The story involves Al Cohn and a u-turn. Hal turned me on to Handy during one of our 2007 conversations, and Handy remains one o…
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