Hal McKusick
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genre: cool jazz
genre: hard bop
description: Hal McKusick (June 1, 1924 – April 11, 2012) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, and flutist who worked with Boyd Raeburn from 1944 to 1945 and Claude Thornhill from 1948 to 1949. Car
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album: Triple Exposure
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 1957-01-01
album: Cross Section Saxes
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 1958-01-01
album: Cross Section - Saxes
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 1958-11-01
album: Triple Exposure (Reissue)
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 1992-01-01
album: Jazz Workshop
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2000-01-01
album: Cross Section-Saxes
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2000-01-01
album: Hal McKusick
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2001-09-20
album: The Complete Barry Galbraith, Milt Hinton And Osie Johnson Recordings
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2005-01-01
album: Jazz Workshop
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2006-01-20
album: Cross Section Saxes
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2010-01-01
album: Cross Section Saxes
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2010-01-01
album: Don't Worry 'Bout Me
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2010-10-10
album: Alto Impressions
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2011-11-11
album: Cool Winds of Manhattan
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2011-11-11
album: The Jazz Explorer
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2011-11-11
album: McKusick's Mood
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2011-11-11
album: Subtle Swing
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2011-11-11
album: East Coast Jazz, Vol. 8 (Remastered 2013)
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2014-02-25
album: East Coast Jazz, Vol. 8 (Remastered 2013)
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2014-02-25
album: Three Classic Albums (Jazz at the Academy / Jazz Workshop / Cross Section - Saxes) [Remastered]
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2015-07-24
album: Jazz Workshop (Remastered)
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2015-08-07
album: Cross Section - Saxes (Remastered)
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2015-08-07
album: Triple Exposure (Remastered)
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2015-09-11
album: East Coast Jazz (Remastered)
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2015-09-11
album: Four Classic Albums (East Coast Jazz / Featuring Art Farmer / In a Twentieth Century Drawing Room / Triple Exposure) [Remastered]
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2015-09-11
album: The Jazz Collection
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2015-09-18
album: Confirmation
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2019-04-16
album: Hal McKusick Quartet
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2020-01-10
album: Touch Of Spring
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2021-09-06
album: Hal Mckusick Quartet Complete
  type: MusicAlbum
  date published: 2022-05-28