Arcuiso "Gus" Bivona was never a household-name clarinetist like Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw or Buddy DeFranco, but during the big band era and throughout the 1950s and '60s, he was one of the finest and most relaxed swing clarinetists in the business. He also was a rock-solid saxophonist. Bivona came up in the late 1930s as a sideman in Will Hudson's ban…
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