Hal McKusick was and remains a jazz musician’s musician. Even in his earliest days in Boyd Raeburn’s band in the mid-1940s, Hal’s distinct sound on the alto saxophone was admired by bandmates Lucky Thompson, Oscar Pettiford and Dizzy Gillespie as well as contemporaries like Charlie Parker, Claude Thornhill and Quincy Jones. Hal’s ability to navigate the…
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