Buddy DeFranco – Buddy DeFranco Wailers (1957)

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Norgran – MGN-1085Rec. Date : December, 1956Stream this Album (YT only) Clarinet : Buddy DeFrancoBass : Bob StoneDrums : Bobby WhiteGuitar : Barney KesselPiano : Jimmy RowlesTrumpet : Harry Edison Army Times : 02/09/1957Tom Scanlan Clarinetist Buddy DeFranco has some swinging moments on a new sextet record appropriately called The Buddy DeFranco Wailers. Well, they do, especially Harry “Sweets” Edison and guitarist Barney Kessel. Greatly underrated pianist Jimmy Rowles is…

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Buddy DeFranco / Oscar Peterson – Play George Gershwin (1955)

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Norgran – MGN 1016Rec. Dates : December 6 & 7, 1954Stream this Album Clarinet : Buddy DeFrancoPiano : Oscar PetersonBass : Ray BrownCello : George Neikrug, Kurt ReherDrums : Bobby WhiteFrench Horn : Dick PerissiGuitar : Herb EllisViola : Virginia Matewski, Louis KievmanViolin : Dan Lube, Saul Grant, David Frisina, Henry Hill, Eudice Shapiro, Mischa Russell, Ralph Schaeffer, Sam Caplan, Rickey Marino, Marshall SossonTrombone : Nick DiMaio, Murray McEachern, Dick Noel, Harry BettsWoodwinds : Marty Berman, Jack Dumont, Herman Gunkler, Jules Jacobs Billboard…

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Lionel Hampton Quintet – Album #2 (1955)

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Clef – MG C-642Rec. Date : April 13, 1954Stream this Album Vibes : Lionel HamptonBass : Ray BrownClarinet : Buddy DeFrancoDrums : Buddy RichPiano : Oscar Peterson Billboard : 03/12/1955Score of 80 It is hard to think of any recent album in which a group of instrumentalists sound so relaxed and at home with each other’s ideas as is the…

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