Buddy de Franco (February 17, 1923 – December 24, 2014) – Two biographical 1999 interviews and a 1999 feature article for Downbeat

This brief but informative oral history of Buddy DeFranco, who brought the language of bebop to clarinet expression during the 1940s, and made a series of excellent combo albums with during the first half of the 1950s with Kenny Drew … Continue reading →