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erry MacDonald may be best known as a copywriter, but at last week’s Hatch Awards, he was honored as a jazz drummer.
MacDonald, of The MacDonald Group in Boston, was presented with the L.E. Sissman Award, given each year to an advertising professional who pursues the arts outside work.
MacDonald had his first professional gig at age 14. In his later teens, he learned from jazz greats such as George Shearing and Max Roach as part of a Teenage Jazz Club.

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