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Johnny Hodges

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Saxophonist
Died
May 11, 1970
Zodiac
Leo
Born in
Cambridge MA
About
One of the Big Band Era's greatest jazz saxophonists. He nurtured a longtime collaboration with Duke Ellington.
Family
He grew up with baritone saxophonist Harry Carney and saxophonists Charlie Holmes and Howard E. Johnson. He fathered two children, Johnny Jr. and Lorna, with wife Edith Cue.

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