Buddy DeFranco Quartet - On Tour . UK Buddy Defranco Quartet Featuring Martin Taylor (1984/2023) [24/96]

While learning to play the clarinet, musicians like Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw were the clarinet-playing superstars of the music business. During the war, a young Buddy DeFranco worked his way through famous big bands with his instrument (Krupa, Barnet and Dorsey), all the while believing there was a big future ahead as a swing musician. But the war ended and with it the big band era — swing was now the music of yesteryear. So what else could you do with a clarinet? In 1948, Buddy DeFranco discovered the new jazz of Charlie Parker: “It simply bowled me over. I couldn’t sleep for nights after hearing it.” DeFranco began to adapt Parker’s ideas, and became the first to play bebop entirely as it should be on the clarinet. And he remained the only one: one-of-a-kind, a maverick, an outsider. DeFranco was 30 years old when he recorded Mr. Clarinet. It was one of his first albums — an album entirely in the spirit of bebop. It begins with “Buddy’s Blues,” a slow 12-beat number, the clarinet version, so to speak, of the classic “Parker’s Mood” and, in line with the new LP format, three times as long at nine minutes!

TRACKLIST

1. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Love For Sale (Live)
2. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Autumn Leaves (Live)
3. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - What's New (Live)
4. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Just Friends (Live)



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