Buddy DeFranco

Buddy DeFranco

Infobox musical artist
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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Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (born February 17, 1923 in Camden, New Jersey) is a jazz clarinet player.

DeFranco began his professional career just as Swing Music and Big Bands — many of which were led by clarinetists like Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Woody 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 only bebop 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 the Glenn Miller Orchestra from 1966 to 1974. He has also performed with Gene 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" with Victor Feldman, Curtis Fuller, Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Freddie Hill, Victor Sproles, 1964
*"Free Fall" with Victor Feldman, John Chiodini, Joe Cocuzzo, Victor Sproles, 1974
*"Like Someone in Love" with Tal Farlow, Derek Smith, George Duvivier, Ronnie Bedford, 1977
*"Hark" with Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, Martin Drew, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1985
*"Holiday for Swing" with John Campbell, Terry Gibbs, Todd Coolman, Gerry Gibbs, 1988
*"Born to Swing!" with Al 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" with Jimmy Cobb, Keter Betts, Joe Cohn, Larry Novak, 1992
*"Buenos Aires Concerts" Live album with Jorge Lopez Ruiz, Ricardo Lew, Jorge Navarro, 1995
*"Mr. Lucky", Live album with Albert Dailey, George Duvivier, Ronnie Bedford, Joe Cohn, 1981/1997
*"Buddy DeFranco & Oscar Peterson Play George Gershwin" with Herb 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" with Todd Coolman, Jerry Coleman, 1999
*"Do Nothing Till You Here from Us" with Dave McKenna, Joe Cohn, 1999
*"Cookin' the Books" with Butch Miles, John Pizzarelli, Martin Pizzarelli, Ray Kennedy, 2004
*"Wailers" with Harry Edison, Barney Kessel, Jimmy Rowles, 2006
*"Nobody Else But Me" with the Metropole Orchestra

External links

* [http://www.buddydefranco.com/bio.html Official biography]


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