- Buddy DeFranco
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Name = Buddy DeFranco
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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = "'Boniface Ferdinand Leonard DeFranco
Alias = "Buddy"
Born = Birth date and age|1923|2|17
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Origin =Camden, New Jersey , U.S.
Instrument =Clarinet
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Genre =Bebop Post bop
Occupation =Clarinetist
Years_active = 1940s – present
Label =Verve Records Mercury Records Arbors Records Norgran Records
Associated_acts =Buddy DeFranco Quartet Tommy Gumina Norman Granz
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Notable_instruments =Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (born
February 17 ,1923 inCamden, New Jersey ) is ajazz clarinet player.DeFranco began his professional career just as
Swing Music andBig Band s — many of which were led by clarinetists likeArtie Shaw ,Benny Goodman andWoody Herman — were fading in popularity. While most jazz clarinet players did not adapt to this change, DeFranco successfully continued to play clarinet exclusively, and was one of the onlybebop clarinetists (Brad Terry carried bebop to its extreme in modern Jazz).In 1950 he spent a year with the famous
Count Basie Septet, and was the leader of theGlenn Miller Orchestra from 1966 to 1974. He has also performed withGene Krupa ,Charlie Barnet ,Art Tatum ,Oscar Peterson and many others, and has released dozens of albums as a leader.elect discography
*"Mr. Clarinet" with
Art Blakey ,Milt Hinton , 1953
*"Blues Bag" withVictor Feldman ,Curtis Fuller ,Lee Morgan ,Art Blakey , Freddie Hill,Victor Sproles , 1964
*"Free Fall" withVictor Feldman , John Chiodini, Joe Cocuzzo,Victor Sproles , 1974
*"Like Someone in Love" withTal Farlow , Derek Smith,George Duvivier ,Ronnie Bedford , 1977
*"Hark" withJoe Pass ,Oscar Peterson ,Martin Drew ,Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , 1985
*"Holiday for Swing" withJohn Campbell ,Terry Gibbs ,Todd Coolman ,Gerry Gibbs , 1988
*"Born to Swing!" withAl Grey ,Lin Biviano ,Dave Cooper ,Denis DiBlasio ,Donald Downs , Pete Jackson, Larry McKenna,George Rabbai , Joe Sudler, Tony Desantis,Dom Fiori ,Wendell Hobbs , Tony Vigilante, Zeigenfus, Brian Pastor,John Simon , 1988
*"Chip off the Old Bop" withJimmy Cobb ,Keter Betts ,Joe Cohn ,Larry Novak , 1992
*"Buenos Aires Concerts" Live album withJorge Lopez Ruiz ,Ricardo Lew ,Jorge Navarro , 1995
*"Mr. Lucky", Live album withAlbert Dailey ,George Duvivier ,Ronnie Bedford ,Joe Cohn , 1981/1997
*"Buddy DeFranco & Oscar Peterson Play George Gershwin" withHerb Ellis ,Oscar Peterson ,Marty Berman , Ray Brown, Nick Dimaio,Jack Dumont , David Frisina, Louis Kievman,Dan Lube ,Rickey Marino ,Murray McEachern , Dick Noel, Richard Perissi, Mischa Russell, Marshall Sosson, Bobby White,Kurt Reher ,Eudice Shapiro , Sam Caplan,Julie Jacobs , Henry Hill, 1998
*"Gone with the Wind" withTodd Coolman ,Jerry Coleman , 1999
*"Do Nothing Till You Here from Us" withDave McKenna ,Joe Cohn , 1999
*"Cookin' the Books" withButch Miles ,John Pizzarelli , Martin Pizzarelli, Ray Kennedy, 2004
*"Wailers" withHarry Edison ,Barney Kessel ,Jimmy Rowles , 2006
*"Nobody Else But Me" with theMetropole Orchestra External links
* [http://www.buddydefranco.com/bio.html Official biography]
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