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Ken Hanna

Jazz trumpeter, big band leader and arranger, born July 8, 1921 in Baltimore, died December 10 or 11, 1982 probably in El Cajon, California. Work for [a=Stan Kenton] during several periods; from 1942 until military service as an arranger; 1946-1948 as a trumpeter and arranger; 1950-1951; and in the the 1970s, when he wrote arrangements, led workshops, and conducted the orchestra during Kenton's illness in 1972. Later he became a record distributor.