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Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (born February 17, 1923 in Camden, New Jersey
Camden, New Jersey

The City of Camden is the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey, New Jersey, in the United States. It is located just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania....
) is a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 clarinet
Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
 player.

DeFranco began his professional career just as Swing Music and Big Band
Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the swing from the early 1930s until the late 1940s....
s — many of which were led by clarinetists like Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw

Arthur Jacob Arshawsky , better known as Artie Shaw, was an United States jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest jazz clarinetists of his time....
, Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman

Benjamin David Goodman, was an United States jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing ", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
 and Woody Herman
Woody Herman

Woodrow Charles Herman , better known as Woody Herman, was an United States jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band band leader....
 — 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
Bebop

Bebop or bop is a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos and improvisation based on harmonic structure rather than melody. It was developed in the early and mid-1940s....
 clarinetists (Brad Terry
Brad Terry

Brad Terry Is a jazz Clarinet-player and accomplished whistler. He has played with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Doc Cheatham, Buck Clayton, Red Mitchell, Buddy Tate, Elliot Zigman, and Lenny Breau....
 carried bebop to its extreme in modern Jazz).

In 1950, DeFranco spent a year with the famous Count Basie
Count Basie

William "Count" Basie was an United States Jazz piano, organist, bandleader, and composer. Widely regarded as one of the most important jazz bandleaders of his time, Basie led his popular Count Basie Orchestra for almost 50 years....
 Septet.






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Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (born February 17, 1923 in Camden, New Jersey
Camden, New Jersey

The City of Camden is the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey, New Jersey, in the United States. It is located just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania....
) is a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 clarinet
Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
 player.

DeFranco began his professional career just as Swing Music and Big Band
Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the swing from the early 1930s until the late 1940s....
s — many of which were led by clarinetists like Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw

Arthur Jacob Arshawsky , better known as Artie Shaw, was an United States jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest jazz clarinetists of his time....
, Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman

Benjamin David Goodman, was an United States jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing ", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
 and Woody Herman
Woody Herman

Woodrow Charles Herman , better known as Woody Herman, was an United States jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band band leader....
 — 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
Bebop

Bebop or bop is a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos and improvisation based on harmonic structure rather than melody. It was developed in the early and mid-1940s....
 clarinetists (Brad Terry
Brad Terry

Brad Terry Is a jazz Clarinet-player and accomplished whistler. He has played with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Doc Cheatham, Buck Clayton, Red Mitchell, Buddy Tate, Elliot Zigman, and Lenny Breau....
 carried bebop to its extreme in modern Jazz).

In 1950, DeFranco spent a year with the famous Count Basie
Count Basie

William "Count" Basie was an United States Jazz piano, organist, bandleader, and composer. Widely regarded as one of the most important jazz bandleaders of his time, Basie led his popular Count Basie Orchestra for almost 50 years....
 Septet. He was bandleader
Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....
 of the Glenn Miller Orchestra
Glenn Miller Orchestra

The Glenn Miller Orchestra was originally formed in 1937 by Glenn Miller. It was arranged around a clarinet and tenor saxophone playing melody, while three other saxophones played the harmony....
 from 1966 to 1974. He has also performed with Gene Krupa
Gene Krupa

Gene Krupa was an influentialUnited States jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style....
, Charlie Barnet
Charlie Barnet

Charles Daly Barnet was an United States jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. His major recordings were "Skyliner", "Cherokee", "The Wrong Idea", "Scotch and Soda", and "Southland Shuffle"....
, Art Tatum
Art Tatum

Arthur Tatum Jr. was an American jazz pianist and virtuoso.With an exuberant style that combined dazzling technique and sophisticated use of harmony, Art Tatum is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time....
, Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario was a Canada jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty....
 and many others, and has released dozens of albums as a leader.

Select discography

  • Mr. Clarinet with Art Blakey
    Art Blakey

    Arthur Blakey , born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, he was an United States jazz drummer and bandleader....
    , Milt Hinton
    Milt Hinton

    Milt Hinton born Milton John Hilton , "the dean of jazz bass players," was an United States jazz double bassist and photographer. He was nicknamed "The Judge"....
    , 1953
  • Generalissimo with Harry "Sweets" Edison, Bob Hardaway, Jimmy Rowles
    Jimmy Rowles

    Jimmy Rowles was an United States jazz pianist who was best known as an accompaniment. He also released a number of albums under his own name, and explored various idioms including swing music and cool jazz....
    , Barney Kessel
    Barney Kessel

    Barney Kessel was an United States jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. He was a member of many prominent jazz groups as well as a "first call" guitarist for studio, film, and television recording sessions....
    , Curtis Counce
    Curtis Counce

    Curtis Counce was an United States hard bop and West Coast jazz double bassist. The fruit of his 1956 Contemporary Records studio collaboration with tenor great Harold Land, trumpeters Jack Sheldon and Gerald Wilson, pianist Carl Perkins and drummer Frank Butler was issued in 2007 on a double CD by Gambit Records....
    , Alvin Stoller
    Alvin Stoller

    Alvin Stoller was an United States Jazz drumming. Though he seems to have been largely forgotten, he was held in high regard in the 1940s and 1950s....
    , 1958
  • Live Date! with Herbie Mann
    Herbie Mann

    Herbert Jay Solomon , better known as Herbie Mann, was an United States jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played saxophones and clarinets , but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute and was perhaps jazz music's preeminent flautist during the 1960 in m...
    , Bob Hardaway, Victor Feldman
    Victor Feldman

    Victor Stanley Feldman was a United Kingdom jazz musician.He caused a sensation as a musical prodigy when he was "discovered" at age 7. His family were all musical and his father founded the Feldman Swing Club in London in 1942 to showcase his talented son....
    , Pete Jolly
    Pete Jolly

    Pete Jolly—born Peter Ceragioli Jr. June 5,1932, in New Haven, Connecticut; died November 6,2004, in Pasadena, California—was an United States West Coast jazz pianist and accordionist, best known for his performance of television theme song and various movie soundtracks....
    , Barney Kessel, Scott LaFaro
    Scott LaFaro

    Rocco Scott LaFaro was an influential jazz double bass, perhaps best known for his work with the Bill Evans....
    , Stan Levey
    Stan Levey

    Stan Levey was an United States jazz drummer. Born in Philadelphia, Levey is considered one of the earliest bebop drummers, one of the very few white drummers involved in the formative years of bebop and accepted as one of bop's most important drummers, along with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach....
    , 1958
  • Blues Bag with Victor Feldman, Curtis Fuller
    Curtis Fuller

    Curtis DuBois Fuller is a United States of America hard bop trombone, known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers....
    , Lee Morgan
    Lee Morgan

    Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter....
    , Art Blakey, Freddie Hill, Victor Sproles
    Victor Sproles

    Victor Sproles is a US jazz bassist.Sproles worked in the 1950s with Red Rodney and Ira Sullivan and appears on the Sun Ra recordings Sound Sun Pleasure!, Super-Sonic Jazz and Sound of Joy....
    , 1964
  • Free Fall with Victor Feldman, John Chiodini, Joe Cocuzzo, Victor Sproles, 1974
  • Like Someone in Love with Tal Farlow
    Tal Farlow

    Talmage Holt Farlow was an United States jazz guitarist.He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1921. Nearly as famous for his reluctance to perform publicly as for his outstanding abilities, Tal did not take up the instrument until he was already 21, but within a year was playing professionally and in 1948 was with Margie Hyams' ban...
    , Derek Smith
    Derek Smith (musician)

    Derek Smith is an English people jazz pianist.Smith played piano from a very young age, and worked professionally from age 14. In the 1950s he played with many noted British jazz musicians, such as Kenny Graham, John Dankworth, and Kenny Baker, then moved to New York City in the middle of the decade....
    , George Duvivier
    George Duvivier

    George Duvivier was an United States jazz Double bass player.Duvivier was born in New York City and took up the cello and also the violin while in high school before settling on the bass....
    , Ronnie Bedford
    Ronnie Bedford

    Ronnie Bedford is an United States jazz drummer and professor. Bedford is one of the founders of the Yellowstone Jazz Festival held annually in Cody, Wyoming, and was the recipient of the 1993 Wyoming Governor's Award for the Arts....
    , 1977
  • Hark with Joe Pass
    Joe Pass

    Joe Pass January 13, 1929 ? May 23, 1994) was a jazz guitarist. His extensive use of walking basslines, melodic counterpoint during improvisation, and use of a chord-melody style of play opened up new possibilities for jazz guitar and had a profound influence on future guitarists....
    , Oscar Peterson
    Oscar Peterson

    Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario was a Canada jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty....
    , Martin Drew
    Martin Drew

    Martin Drew is an England jazz drummer who has played with Ronnie Scott and Oscar Peterson .He had a quintet called "Our Band" with Dick Morrissey, tenor saxophone, Jim Mullen, guitar , John Critchinson, piano, and Ron Mathewson, double bass....
    , Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
    Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

    Niels-Henning ?rsted Pedersen was a Denmark jazz Double Bass known for his impressive technique and an approach that could be considered an extension of the innovative work of Scott LaFaro....
    , 1985
  • Holiday for Swing with John Campbell
    John Campbell (jazz pianist)

    John Campbell is a jazz pianist born July 7, 1955 in Bloomington, Illinois. He studied piano privately as a youth, then attended Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois in the 70s before moving to Chicago in 1977, then to New York in the 80s....
    , Terry Gibbs
    Terry Gibbs

    Terry Gibbs is an United States jazz vibraphonist and band leader.He has performed and/or recorded with Tommy Dorsey, Chubby Jackson, Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Louie Bellson, Charlie Shavers, Mel Torm?, Buddy DeFranco, and others....
    , Todd Coolman
    Todd Coolman

    Todd Coolman is a world famous jazz double bass residing near New York City.Since moving to New York in 1978, he has performed with Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Lionel Hampton and Benny Goodman....
    , Gerry Gibbs, 1988
  • Born to Swing! with Al Grey
    Al Grey

    Al Grey was a jazz trombonist who is most remembered for his association with the Count Basie orchestra. Grey is known for his plunger mute technique , and also wrote an instructional book called "Plunger Techniques"....
    , Lin Biviano
    Lin Biviano

    Lin Biviano is a jazz trumpet player. He is noted for his extreme power, especially in the upper register, and his distinctive fast vibrato. His style is similar to that of the late Chet Ferretti, who was his biggest influence....
    , Dave Cooper
    Dave Cooper

    David Charles Cooper is a cartoonist, commercial illustrator and a graphic designer who lives in Ottawa, Canada. In addition to comics, Cooper has worked extensively as a designer, Television producer, and creator in the field of animation....
    , Denis DiBlasio, Donald Downs
    Donald Downs

    Donald Alexander Downs is an American political science professor known for his work on the First Amendment.Downs received his Ph.D. the University of California - Berkeley and his B.A....
    , Pete Jackson, Larry McKenna, George Rabbai, Joe Sudler, Tony Desantis, Dom Fiori, Wendell Hobbs, Tony Vigilante, Zeigenfus, Brian Pastor, John Simon
    John Simon

    John Simon may refer to:* John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain 1940–45** Several of his descendants who held the title of Viscount Simon...
    , 1988
  • Chip off the Old Bop with Jimmy Cobb
    Jimmy Cobb

    Jimmy Cobb is an United States Jazz drumming. He has worked extensively with a wide range of artists, including Dinah Washington, Pearl Bailey, Clark Terry, Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Wynton Kelly, Stan Getz, Wes Montgomery, Gil Evans, Miles Davis, Paul Chambers, Kenny Burrell, J....
    , Keter Betts
    Keter Betts

    Keter Betts was an United States jazz double bassist. Born William Thomas Betts in Port Chester, New York, he was nicknamed "Keter", a short form of the word mosquito....
    , Joe Cohn, Larry Novak
    Larry Novak

    Lawrence R. "Larry" Novak is an American jazz pianist. He is the father of Gary Novak.Larry Novak was born in Chicago. He learned piano from age five and began playing jazz at 14....
    , 1992
  • Buenos Aires Concerts Live album with Jorge Lopez Ruiz, Ricardo Lew, Jorge Navarro, 1995
  • Mr. Lucky, Live album with Albert Dailey
    Albert Dailey

    Albert Dailey was an American jazz pianist.Dailey's first professional appearances were with the house band of the Baltimore Royal Theater in the early 1950s....
    , George Duvivier
    George Duvivier

    George Duvivier was an United States jazz Double bass player.Duvivier was born in New York City and took up the cello and also the violin while in high school before settling on the bass....
    , Ronnie Bedford
    Ronnie Bedford

    Ronnie Bedford is an United States jazz drummer and professor. Bedford is one of the founders of the Yellowstone Jazz Festival held annually in Cody, Wyoming, and was the recipient of the 1993 Wyoming Governor's Award for the Arts....
    , Joe Cohn, 1981/1997
  • Buddy DeFranco & Oscar Peterson Play George Gershwin with Herb Ellis
    Herb Ellis

    Mitchell Herbert Ellis is an United States jazz guitarist....
    , Oscar Peterson
    Oscar Peterson

    Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario was a Canada jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty....
    , Marty Berman, Ray Brown
    Ray Brown (musician)

    Raymond Matthews Brown was an United States jazz double bassist. He is considered by many one of the masters of his instrument, as he developed an almost perfect sense of timekeeping and had a hard swing feel to his lines....
    , Nick Dimaio, Jack Dumont, David Frisina, Louis Kievman, Dan Lube, Rickey Marino, Murray McEachern
    Murray McEachern

    Murray McEachern was a Canada jazz trombonist and alto saxophone born in Toronto, perhaps best-known for having played trombone for Benny Goodman from 1936-1937....
    , 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
    Todd Coolman

    Todd Coolman is a world famous jazz double bass residing near New York City.Since moving to New York in 1978, he has performed with Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Lionel Hampton and Benny Goodman....
    , Jerry Coleman
    Jerry Coleman

    Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman is a former Major League Baseball second baseman and, currently, a play-by-play announcer for the San Diego Padres....
    , 1999
  • Do Nothing Till You Here from Us with Dave McKenna
    Dave McKenna

    Dave McKenna was a jazz pianist. He was known for his "three-handed swing", and was the leading proponent of solo piano style.Biography...
    , Joe Cohn, 1999
  • Cookin' the Books with Butch Miles
    Butch Miles

    Butch Miles is an United States jazz drumming. He has played with the Count Basie Orchestra, Dave Brubeck, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra, among others....
    , John Pizzarelli
    John Pizzarelli

    John Pizzarelli, Jr. is an American jazz guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader. He has had a lengthy career as a recording artist, performing for a variety of labels that include Telarc Records, RCA Records and Chesky Records, among others....
    , Martin Pizzarelli, Ray Kennedy, 2004
  • Wailers with Harry "Sweets" Edison, Barney Kessel, Jimmy Rowles, 2006
  • Nobody Else But Me with the Metropole Orchestra


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