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Larry Clinton
Larry Clinton (born August 17, 1909, Brooklyn, New York, died May 2, 1985, Tucson, Arizona) was a trumpeter who became a prominent American bandleader from 1937 to 1941 and again from 1948 to 1950, having worked as a flight instructor during the intervening war years. His practise of rearranging the works of famous composers like Debussy and Tchaikovsky and adding lyrics was known as "swinging the classics.
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