Michael Andrew "Peanuts" Hucko was born in 1918 in Syracuse, NY and moved to New York City in 1939. From 1939 to 1940, He played tenor saxophone with Will Bradley and Joe Marsala. After a brief time ...

A few days ago, when I mentioned Peanuts Hucko in a post on trumpeter Don Ferrara, I received a bunch of emails from readers either wondering who he was or chortling about his nickname. Michael ...

Easily the most successful of the followers of the swing era clarinetist Benny Goodman was "Peanuts" Hucko, who has died aged 85. Indeed, his flawless command of the instrument so impressed Goodman ...

Jazz clarinetist Michael “Peanuts” Hucko, who played with Glenn Miller’s band during World War II and briefly led the band in the 1970s, died Thursday June 19 in Fort Worth, Texas, after a long ...

Peanuts Hucko, who has died aged 85, played jazz clarinet and saxophone with Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Jack Teagarden and Benny Goodman. Equally at home in the swing and Dixieland idioms, Hucko ...

Peanuts Hucko, a jazz clarinetist who worked with Glenn Miller and Louis Armstrong but was probably best known for his association with Lawrence Welk, died June 19 in Fort Worth. He was 85 and lived ...