Buddy DeFranco has the unprecedented distinction of winning twenty Downbeat Magazine Awards, nine Metronome Magazine Awards, and sixteen Playboy All-Stars Awards as the number one jazz clarinetist in ...

Buddy DeFranco was one of them. He wasn’t as famous as Shaw or Benny Goodman, who for a period enjoyed […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 92°F. Monday, June 23rd 2025 ...

Mr. DeFranco was selected as a jazz master by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2006 and, a year later, was one of 33 musicians honored as “living legends of jazz” at the Kennedy Center.

After moving to California, DeFranco's quartet of the early 1960s boasted a unique sound Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

Jazz legend Buddy DeFranco died Wednesday, Dec. 24, at his home in Panama City, Florida. ... (DeFranco) was in town for one of his festivals here,” said Florence.

Clarinetist Buddy DeFranco, a brilliant jazz improviser who devised many paths for his instrument following its peak popularity in the swing era, died Dec. 24, his website announced. He was 91.

The swing is real and the delivery is virtual this year at the Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival. The 41st annual event from the University of Montana Jazz Program adapted its programs for remote, and ...

Buddy DeFranco, onetime bandleader of the Glenn Miller Orchestra who played clarinet with Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and many others, died Wednesday in Panama City, Fla. He was 91. One of the ...

Buddy DeFranco, a jazz clarinetist who played with the big swing bands of Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet and Gene Krupa, the Count Basie Septet and the George Shearing Trio and is considered the ...

Buddy DeFranco, one of the most virtuosic and musically accomplished clarinetists in the history of jazz, died Wednesday night in Panama City, Fla., said his wife of 44 years, Joyce DeFranco. He wa… ...

Buddy DeFranco has the unprecedented distinction of winning twenty Downbeat Magazine Awards, nine Metronome Magazine Awards, and sixteen Playboy All-Stars Awards as the number one jazz clarinetist in ...