Harry Howell Carney was a jazz legend who played the baritone saxophone and influenced generations of musicians. Carney is best known for his 45-year tenure in Duke Ellington's Orchestra. Carney was born in 1910 in Boston, Massachusetts. By the age of six, he was playing the piano which later led to the clarinet and alto […]
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