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Biography
Infobox musical artist | name = Buddy DeFranco| image = Buddy DeFranco.jpg| caption =| image_size =| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name = Boniface Ferdinand Leonard DeFranco| birth_date = Birth date and age|1923|2|17| birth_place= Camden, New Jersey , United States|U.S. | death_date =| origin =| instrument = Clarinet | genre = Swing music|Swing Bebop Post bop | occupation = Clarinetist | years_active = 1940s& ndash;present| label = Verve Records Mercury Records Arbors Records Norgran Records | associated_acts = Buddy DeFranco Quartet Tommy Gumina Norman Granz | website =| current_members =| past_members =| notable_instruments = Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (born February 17, 1923) is an United States|American jazz clarinet player.
Biography
DeFranco began his professional career just as swing music and big band s & mdash; many of which were led by clarinetists like Artie Shaw , Benny Goodman and Woody Herman & mdash; 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 few bebop clarinetists.
In 1950, DeFranco spent a year with the famous Count Basie Septet. His small combo in the early 1950s included jazz modernist Sonny Clark on the piano and guitarist Tal Farlow . He was bandleader 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.
Discography
Mr. Clarinet (as the Buddy DeFranco Quartet) with Art Blakey , Milt Hinton , Kenny Drew , 1953
Cooking the Blues with Sonny Clark , Tal Farlow , Gene Wright , Bobby White, 1954
Sweet and Lovely with Sonny Clark, Tal Farlow, Gene Wright, Bobby White, 1954
Generalissimo with Harry "Sweets" Edison , Bob Hardaway, Jimmy Rowles , Barney Kessel , Curtis Counce , Alvin Stoller , 1958
Cross Country Suite Composer: Nelson Riddle (Dot Records DLP-9006) (1958)
Live Date! with Herbie Mann , Bob Hardaway, Victor Feldman , Pete Jolly , Barney Kessel, Scott LaFaro , Frank DeVito, 1958
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 (musician)|Derek Smith , George Duvivier , Ronnie Bedford , 1977
Jazz Party: First Time Together with Terry Gibbs, 1981, Palo Alto Records
Hark with Joe Pass , Oscar Peterson , Martin Drew , Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , 1985
Holiday for Swing with John Campbell (jazz pianist)|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 (record producer)|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 (musician)|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 (Violinist)|Henry Hill , 1998
Gone with the Wind with Todd Coolman , Jerry Coleman , 1999
Do Nothing Till You Hear from Us with Dave McKenna , Joe Cohn , 1999
''Cookin' the Books with Butch Miles , John Pizzarelli , Martin Pizzarelli , Raymond Louis Kennedy , 2004
Wailers with Harry "Sweets" Edison, Barney Kessel, Jimmy Rowles, 2006
Nobody Else But Me
External links
http://www.buddydefranco.com/bio.html Official biography
clarinet Persondata | NAME =Defranco, Buddy | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =February 17, 1923 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Camden, New Jersey , United States|U.S. | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Defranco, Buddy Category:Bebop clarinetists Category:Post-bop clarinetists Category:American jazz musicians of Italian descent Category:American jazz clarinetists Category:American jazz bandleaders Category:1923 births Category:Living people
