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| 1. | Sunday
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| 2. | Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
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| 3. | Tea for Two
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| 4. | Blue Lou
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| 5. | Funky's Uncle
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| 6. | Ballad Medley: 'Round Midnight/You Don't Know What Love Is/How Can We B
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| 7. | Oh, Lady Be Good [Live]
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| 8. | Satin Doll [Live]
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| 9. | My Funny Valentine [Live]
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| 10. | Blues for Space Travelers [Live]
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| 11. | Crazy Rhythm [Live]
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| 12. | Ballad Medley: I'm Glad There Is You/There's No You/These Foolish Thing
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Jazz / Bop, Ballads, Post-Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Standards
Buddy De Franco's 1958 album and a bonus the LP "Live Date". Both albums appear here for the first time on CD.
BUDDY DE FRANCO, clarinet on all tracks, plus:
#1-6: "Generalissimo"
Harry 'Sweets' Edison (tp), Bob Hardaway (ts), Jimmy Rowles (p), Barney Kessel (g), Curtis Counce (b) & Alvin Stoller (d)
Recorded in Los Angeles, April 2, 1958
#7-12: "Live Date"
Herbie Mann (fl), Bob Hardaway (ts), Victor Feldman (vibs), Pete Jolly (p, acc), Barney Kessel (g), Scott LaFaro (b) & Stan Le-vey (d)
Recorded in Los Angeles, April 4, 1958
Benny Green Liner Notes
Bob Hardaway Sax (Tenor)
Leonard Feather Liner Notes
X Photography
In 2007, the Lone Hill Jazz label reissued two Verve albums by clarinetist Buddy DeFranco: Generalissimo and Live Date!, which despite the title was a studio recording. In a producer's note, Morton James verbally winces at the pun on the name of the notoriously genocidal Spanish dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco, and speculates that this grossly insensitive gimmick, thought up by some clueless A&R director or advertising agent, might actually have delayed the album's appearance on CD until 2007. Boniface Ferdinand Leonardo de Franco was born in Camden, NJ, in 1923. The son of a piano tuner, he excelled on several instruments before settling into his role as one of the premier clarinetists in early modern jazz. Recorded on Wednesday, April 2, 1958, Generalissimo turns out to be a solid little blowing session involving trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison and Milwaukee-born tenor saxophonist Bob Hardaway, with an awesome rhythm section in Jimmy Rowles, Curtis Counce, Barney Kessel, and Alvin Stoller. On Friday, April 4, 1958, DeFranco brought Kessel and Hardaway back to the studio, this time with drummer Stan Levey, bassist Scott LaFaro, pianist/accordionist Pete Jolly, vibraphonist Victor Feldman, and multi-instrumentalist Herbie Mann, who played flute, tenor sax, and (on "These Foolish Things") bass clarinet. This double reissue is composed mainly of jazz standards with a couple of originals and two sumptuous ballad medleys. Unfortunately, the combined running time for both albums exceeded the 80-minute mark by about 120 seconds. For this reason, "Tin Reed Blues" from the Live Date! album was omitted, but may be enjoyed on the equally excellent double CD I Hear Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw [Lone Hill Jazz 10281]. ~ arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide
Buddy DeFranco
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Feb 17, 1923 in Camden, NJ
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Post-Bop
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 Goodman and Artie Shaw, he has never been a household name for the general public.
When he was 14 DeFranco won an amateur swing contest sponsored by Tommy Dorsey. After working with the big bands of Gene Krupa (1941-42) and Charlie Barnet (1943-44), he was with TD on and off during 1944-48. DeFranco, other than spending part of 1950 with Count Basie's septet, was mostly a bandleader from then on. Among the few clarinetists to transfer the language of Charlie Parker onto his instrument, DeFranco has won a countless number of polls and appeared with the Metronome All-Stars in the late '40s. He recorded frequently in the 1950s (among his sidmeen were Art Blakey, Kenny Drew and Sonny Clark) and participated in some of Norman Granz's Verve jam session. During 1960-63 DeFranco led a quartet that also featured the accordion of Tommy Gumina and he recorded an album with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers on which he played bass clarinet. However work was difficult to find in the 1960s, leading DeFranco to accept the assignment of leading the Glenn Miller ghost band (1966-74). He has found more artistic success co-leading a quintet with Terry Gibbs off and on since the early '80s and has recorded through the decades for many labels.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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