Dave McKenna
May 30, 1930 – October 18, 2008
Dave McKenna was a respected swing jazz pianist who worked with, among others, Gene Krupa, Stan Getz, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, and Eddie Condon. A lifelong fan of the Boston Red Sox, McKenna was known to listen to Sox games on a transistor radio while performing. He died of cancer at the age of 78.
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