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Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (February 17, 1923 – December 24, 2014) was an Italian-American jazz clarinetist. In addition to his work as a bandleader, DeFranco led the Glenn Miller Orchestra for almost a decade in the 1960s and 1970s.
Dec 26, 2014 · Buddy DeFranco, the innovative clarinetist who rose from the remains of the swing era to forge new and lasting prominence as the instrument’s pre-eminent interpreter of bebop, died on Wednesday...
Parkside Publications presents the biography of Buddy DeFranco, who is generally regarded as the greatest jazz clarinetist of all time. Buddy’s life as a professional musician spans almost the entire history of jazz, from the early days of the Swing Era, through Bebop and up to the present day.
the swing and modern jazz fans follow! Buddy DeFranco has the unprecedented distinction of winning twenty Downbeat Magazine Awards, nine Metronome Magazine Awards, and sixteen Playboy All-Stars Awards as the number one jazz clarinetist in the world.
Dec 26, 2014 · Clarinetist Buddy DeFranco, a brilliant jazz improviser who devised many paths for his instrument following its peak popularity in the swing era, died Dec. 24, his website announced. He was 91.
Dec 27, 2014 · Buddy DeFranco, a jazz clarinetist who played with the big swing bands of Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet and Gene Krupa, the Count Basie Septet and the George Shearing Trio and is considered the...
Dec 28, 2014 · Buddy DeFranco, one of the most innovative and enduring masters of the jazz clarinet, who introduced the complex musical vocabulary of bebop to his instrument in the 1940s and had a career...
Dec 28, 2014 · Renowned jazz clarinettist Buddy DeFranco, known for working with Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday and other well-known musicians, has died aged 91. DeFranco's family said the musician died...
Dec 24, 2014 · 2006 NEA Jazz Master Buddy DeFranco was a brilliant improviser and prodigious technician on the clarinet who bridged the swing and bebop eras, and is celebrated annually with the Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival, hosted by the University of Montana, Missoula.
Feb 28, 2023 · In a full (and long – 1923-2014) life, Buddy DeFranco recorded in excess of 150 albums, both as leader and sideman, won 20 Downbeat, nine Metronome and 16 Playboy awards, and yet, to many people he is remembered for leading the Glenn Miller orchestra – the full billing was The World-Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra Directed By Buddy ...
