Author: david sherr
Date: 2021-02-01 23:00
The first clarinet player in the MGM orchestra at that point was David McKenney but I sort of doubt he was the jazz soloist. He had, according to his contemporaries, a great sound. Antonio Raimondi, whose son, Hugo, replaced McKenney when he retired in 1954 (and never again took the clarinet out of the case, according to legend), said McKenney "had a beautiful tone, but was not ambitious to play chamber music." McKenney's recording of the Hindemith Quintet is on youtube; judge for yourself. He sure sounds good to me. According to McKenney's counterpart at Fox, Russ Cheever (one of my teachers), "McKenney had a sound as big as this house."
According to Wikipedia, Gus Bivona joined the MGM orchestra in 1947, so that would be the best guess. Whoever it was sure sounded good.
http://www.belairjazz.org
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