Hal McKusick met tenor saxophonist Al Cohn for the first time in 1944. They were both in the reed section of Boyd Raeburn’s band, which featured jazz musicians and arrangers who were years ahead of their time. Dizzy Gillespie, Bennie Harris and Oscar Pettiford were there. So was Johnny Mandel, George Handy and Johnny Richards. Everyone in the band went …
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