[Photo above of Billy Butterfield] Here are YouTube clips to illustrate Hucko's gift on clarinet and saxophone: Here's Peanuts Hucko with the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band in 1944 backing Johnny ...

Michael Andrew "Peanuts" Hucko was born in 1918 in Syracuse ... During this time, Peanuts (the nickname comes from a childhood love of them) began to concentrate on the clarinet "because we did a lot ...

Revered jazz clarinetist Michael “Peanuts” Hucko, who played with Glenn Miller ... through sand that he decided to switch to the clarinet. “I didn’t want to ruin my tenor,” he told ...

Jazz nicknames tend to be both colorful and euphonious, and one of the best belongs to Michael Andrew ”Peanuts” Hucko, the Benny Goodman-inspired clarinetist who rose to fame with Glenn Miller ...