Buddy Defranco
Buddy DeFranco is one of the great clarinetists of all time and, until the rise of Eddie Daniels, he was indisputably the top clarinetist to emerge since 1940. It was DeFranco's misfortune to be the best on an instrument that after the swing era dropped drastically in popularity and, unlike Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, he has never been a household name for the general public.
When he was 14, DeFranco won an amateur swing contest sponsored by Tommy Dorsey. After working with the big bands of Gene Krupa (1941-1942) and Charlie Barnet (1943-1944), he was with TD on and off during 1944-1948. DeFranco, other than spending part of 1950 with Count Basie's septet, was mostly a bandleader from then on. Among the few clarinetists to transfer the language of Charlie Parker onto his instrument, DeFranco has won a countless number of polls and appeared with the Metronome All-Stars in the late '40s. He recorded frequently in the '50s (among his sidemen were Art Blakey, Kenny Drew, and Sonny Clark) and participated in some of Norman Granz's Verve jam session. During 1960-1963 DeFranco led a quartet that also featured the accordion of Tommy Gumina and he recorded an album with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers on which he played bass clarinet. Work, however, was difficult to find in the '60s, leading DeFranco to accept the assignment of leading the Glenn Miller ghost band (1966-1974). He has found more artistic success co-leading a quintet with Terry Gibbs off and on since the early '80s and has recorded throughout the decades for many labels.
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The Artistry Of Buddy DeFranco
Jazz - Erschienen bei Verve Reissues am 01.01.1954
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Pretty Moods By Buddy DeFranco
Jazz - Erschienen bei Verve Reissues am 23.12.2002
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Cool & Quiet
Lennie Tristano, Buddy Defranco
Jazz - Erschienen bei Blue Note Records am 01.01.1982
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Play Steve Allen
Jazz - Erschienen bei Fantasy Records am 01.01.1999
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The Very Best Of
Bebop - Erschienen bei Master Classics Records am 01.04.2011
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The Artistry of Buddy DeFranco
Jazz - Erschienen bei Music Manager am 09.08.2021
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Cooking The Blues
Jazz - Erschienen bei Chameleon Archive am 21.06.2021
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Buddy DeFranco and Oscar Peterson Play George Gershwin
Buddy Defranco, Oscar Peterson
Jazz - Erschienen bei Music Manager am 22.06.2021
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Charlie Cat 2
Jazz - Erschienen bei Arbors Records am 01.01.2022
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The Bebop Years 1949-56
Jazz - Erschienen bei ACROBAT am 01.07.2022
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I Hear Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw
Jazz - Erschienen bei Ascension Records am 29.06.2022
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Cooking The Blues & Sweet & Lovely
Jazz - Erschienen bei Lone Hill Jazz am 09.01.2009
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Plays Benny Goodman & Artie Shaw
Bebop - Erschienen bei Master Classics Records am 01.03.2011
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Gone With The Wind
Jazz - Erschienen bei Storyville am 20.07.1999
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Generalissimo + Live Date
Jazz - Erschienen bei Plenty Jazz Records am 01.01.2022
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Cooking the Blues + Sweet and Lovely (feat. Sonny Clark & Tal Farlow)
Jazz - Erschienen bei Plenty Jazz Records am 15.03.2015
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