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Ray Linn, born in Chicago, Illinois on October 20, 1920 experienced his first major engagements in the late 1930s playing with Tommy Dorsey, from 1938 to 1941 and Woody Herman until the outbreak of World War II. He would return to play with Herman again several times after the war during the Forties and Fifties.

In the 1940s he spent time playing with several big bands led by Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Boyd Raeburn. Moving to Los Angeles, California in 1945, he worked extensively as a studio musician, in addition to playing with Bob Crosby in the early 1950s.

The Fifties decade would be his final extended tenure with Herman. He spent much of the 1960s playing music for television, including The Lawrence Welk Show.

He recorded eight tunes as a leader in 1946, and full-length albums in 1978 and 1980, the latter of which are Dixieland jazz. Trumpeter Ray Linn passed away in November 1996 in Columbus, Ohio.

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