Ernie Royal (1921)
Ernest Andrew Royal was a jazz trumpeter. His older brother was clarinetist and alto saxophonist Marshal Royal, with whom he appears on the classic Ray Charles big band recording The Genius of Ray…
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John McCarthy (1956)
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Eric S. Raymond (1957)
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