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, 1954 Stream this Album Clarinet : Buddy DeFrancoPiano : Oscar PetersonBass : Ray BrownDrums : Bobby WhiteGuitar : Herb Ellis Billboard : 03/26/1955Score of 75 The flashy talents of clarinetist DeFranco and pianist Peterson jell neatly here in the well-arranged ork. setting. DeFranco has won…

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