Results for "Buddy DeFranco"

Chicago Jazz Festival 2009

by Sandy Ingham
September 23, 2009

Chicago Jazz Festival 2009Chicago, IllinoisSeptember 4-6, 2009 Chicago can't lay claim to being the jazz capital of the world, nor was it the birthplace of jazz (though as the place where Louis Armstrong and other seminal New Orleans artists came after New Orleans, and as the birthplace of Benny Goodman 100 years ago, ...

Interview: Buddy Defranco on Tatum

April 21, 2009

On February 6, 1956, Art Tatum and Buddy DeFranco recorded together in Los Angeles with Red Callender on bass and Bill Douglass on drums. The session was for Norman Granz's Verve Records, one of several American Songbook sessions Granz had set up teaming Tatum with jazz greats of the period. The Tatum-DeFranco date is significant for ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Buddy DeFranco

February 17, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Buddy DeFranco's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Buddy DeFrancoBuddy 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... more Website ...

Cal Tjader: Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-1980

by David Rickert
November 5, 2008

Cal Tjader began his career as a stalwart member of the West Coast jazz scene, swinging his vibes through breezy versions of standards with the likes of Vince Guaraldi and Stan Getz. Along the way he delved into Latin music and after that it colored almost everything he did. His progression as an artist is explored ...

I Thought About You

Featuring the music of Buddy DeFranco
Duration: 4:10
August 9, 2007

Pretty Moods

By Buddy DeFranco

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2005

Cookin' The Books

By Buddy DeFranco

Label: Arbors Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Softly,As In A Morning Sunrise, Prisoner of Love, What is This Thing Called Love, Cookin' the Books, I Lost the Blues, East of the Sun, Dancing in the Dark, Poor Butterfly, Gone with the Wind, Scrapple from the Apple.

Buddy DeFranco with the John Pizzarelli Trio and Butch Miles: Cookin' The Books

by Michael P. Gladstone
May 13, 2004

How about that? Cookin' The Books provides a positive spin on the current description of corporate greed and deception. For the purposes of this album, it has been corrupted to refer to the Great American Songbook and, indeed, Buddy DeFranco and company are certainly doing a fine job of cookin' these tunes. DeFranco, in his 60th ...

Blues Bag

By Buddy DeFranco

Label: KOCH International Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: Blues Bag; Straight No Chaser, Rain Dance, Blues Connotation, Cousin Mary, Kush.

Buddy DeFranco: Blues Bag

by AAJ Staff
August 1, 2001

Blues Bag was originally released as Veejay 2506 (thank you, Koch, for providing this data plus the players on the outside of the package). The excellent mainstream clarinetist DeFranco plays only bass clarinet here. The sidemen include a collection of masters: Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Victor Feldman, Freddie Hill, and Victor Sproles. This disc ...