Buddy Defranco - The Bebop Years 1949-56 (2022)
Artist: Buddy Defranco
Title: The Bebop Years 1949-56
Year Of Release: 2022
Label: Acrobat Records
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:22:07
Total Size: 482 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: The Bebop Years 1949-56
Year Of Release: 2022
Label: Acrobat Records
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:22:07
Total Size: 482 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
CD1
01. Buddy DeFranco Sextet - Bud's Invention
02. Buddy DeFranco Sextet - Extrovert
03. Count Basie - Neal's Deal
04. Count Basie - The Golden Bullet
05. Count Basie - These Foolish Things
06. Count Basie - Tootie
07. Buddy DeFranco And His Orchestra - Dancing On The Ceiling
08. Buddy DeFranco And His Orchestra - Body And Soul
09. Buddy DeFranco And His Orchestra - Rumpus Room
10. Buddy DeFranco And His Orchestra - Make Believe
11. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Oh, Lady Be Good
12. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Buddy's Blues
13. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Pennywhistle Blues
14. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Carioca
15. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - I Got It Bad
16. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Summertime
17. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Autumn In New York
18. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Show Eyes
19. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - When Your Lover Has Gone
20. Oscar Peterson Trio & Buddy DeFranco - Somebody Loves Me
21. Oscar Peterson Trio & Buddy DeFranco - The Things We Did Last Summer
22. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Cable Car
CD2
01. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Monogram
02. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Blues In The Closet
03. Lionel Hampton Quartet - On The Sunny Side Of The Street
04. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - You Go To My Head
05. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Sonny's Idea
06. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Laura
07. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Minor Incident
08. Buddy DeFranco Quartet - Moe
09. Buddy DeFranco and the Oscar Peterson Quartet - Fascinating Rhythm
10. Buddy DeFranco and the Oscar Peterson Quartet - Easy To Love
11. Buddy DeFranco Quintet - But Beautiful
12. Buddy DeFranco Quintet - I Can't Get Started
13. Art Tatum, Buddy De Franco Quartet - A Foggy Day
14. Art Tatum, Buddy De Franco Quartet - Makin' Whoopee
15. The Buddy DeFranco Wailers - Perfidia
16. The Buddy DeFranco Wailers - I Won't Dance
Buddy DeFranco was one of the few jazz clarinettists to come to prominence in the post-war era when the instrument generally saw a decline, and he was one of the only clarinettists to successfully find a role in the changing musical environment brought about by the emergence of bebop. His grounding was in the swing orchestras of Gene Krupa, Charlie Barnet and most notably Tommy Dorsey, but having left Dorsey in 1948, he led his own bands as well as performing and recording with some of the noted leaders and musicians of the bebop era. In the 1960s and ‘70s he led the later incarnation of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. This 2-CD set selects recordings released on the Capitol, Columbia, MGM, Clef, Norgran, and Verve labels featuring DeFranco leading his bands and playing as a member of groups led by Count Basie, Lionel Hampton and Oscar Peterson. Among the top musicians of the day with whom he plays alongside on the tracks featured here are Art Tatum, Clark Terry, Buddy Rich, Max Roach, Kenny Drew, Curly Russell, Art Blakey, Milt Hinton, Eugene Wright, Ray Brown, Herb Ellis, Louis Bellson, Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison, Barney Kessel and others. It’s a collection which not only provides a showcase for Buddy DeFranco’s underestimated virtuosity as a clarinettist, but presents him playing on some notable recordings with some of the finest musicians of the post-war decade.
