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Joe Dixon

American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, born April 21, 1917 in Lynn, MA. Moved to New York in 1934 to join [a=Bill Staffon]'s orchestra, played with [a=Tommy Dorsey] 1936-1947. Later freelance, in the early 1960s leading the Long Island Jazz Quartette. From 1973 to 1981 led his own Nassau Neophonic Jazz Ensemble.