Biography by Scott Yanow. Jazz clarinet great, in Gene Krupa's band as a 1940s teenager, still touring constantly into the 21st Century. The Art Tatum-Buddy DeFranco Quartet.

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 G. .

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Buddy DeFranco (born February 17, 1923, Camden, NJ; died December 24, 2014, Panama City, FL; aged 91), clarinet. List of albums/singles by catalogue number: Buddy DeFranco Catalog - album index. List of sessions by recorded date & location: Buddy DeFranco Discography - session index. List of jazz musicians

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Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) was an American alto saxophonist and very occasional tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. A longtime figure in West Coast jazz, Pepper came to prominence in Stan Kenton's big band. He was known for his emotionally charged performances and several stylistic shifts throughout his career, and was described by critic Scott Yanow as "the world's great altoist" at the time of his death.

Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (February 17, 1923 – December 24, 2014) was an Italian American jazz clarinet player. One of few clarinetists playing bebop, DeFranco was described by critic Scott Yannow as the leading American jazz musician on his instrument from the 1940s until Eddie Daniels came to prominence in the 1980s. In addition to his own work as a bandleader, DeFranco led the Glenn Miller Orchestra for almost a decade in the 1960s and '70s. DeFranco in New York, 1947. Background information. He also performed with Gene Krupa, Charlie Barnet, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Terry Gibbs, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday and many others, and released dozens of albums as a leader. DeFranco died in Panama City, Florida at the age of 9.

Buddy DeFranco in Billie’s Bounce, at the Yellowstone jazz festival, 1990. Though he avoided the idiosyncrasies of pitch and intonation that made more obviously characterful performers of Dodds or Russell, DeFranco had a rich tone, ideas and seamless fluency. In 1952 he was a cornerstone of a swing-to-bop band featuring drummer Art Blakey, initially with the pianist Kenny Drew and then the shortlived Sonny Clark – a version of which band introduced DeFranco to international touring in Europe in spring 1954. As late as 1989, DeFranco’s work with Duvivier and the guitarist Tal Farlow on the album Like Someone in Love could count among his best recorded work. DeFranco also made regular TV appearances, on the Steve Allen Show, the Jerry Lewis Telethon and Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show among others.