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FAREWELLS

an alto saxophonist and multi-reedist who was co-bandleader (and co-namesake) of both the Clayton Brothers quintet and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, died Dec. 16 at his home in Los Angeles, Calif. For the past two years, he had been suffering from kidney cancer. He was 65. See

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