Buddy Defranco News

All About Jazz is celebrating Tony Scott's birthday today! Tony Scott Tony Scott, a distinguished jazz clarinetist who in the 1950s helped steer his instrument out of the swing era and into the sax-infested waters of bebop.

Chicago-based author and educator Bill Dal Cerro contacted the obituary desk last week after I wrote about Sam Butera , the hard-driving tenor saxophonist whose musical partnership with Louis Prima in the 1950s and 1960s made them a major national act.

Among the more ebullient moments in Jazz at Lincoln Center 's centennial tribute to Benny Goodman at the Rose Theater on Thursday night, one stood out decisively.

In honor of the 100th anniversary of Benny Goodman's birth, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra revisits the bandleader and clarinetist's historic 1938 Carnegie Hall concert, performing hits such as 'Sing, Sing, Sing' and 'King Porter Stomp.' Joining in this celebration to the King of Swing will be a living history of jazz clarinetists including ...

Legendary jazz musician Buddy DeFranco will return to the University of Montana for the UM Music Department's 29th annual jazz festival Friday and Saturday, April 24-25. For the past nine years the event has been called the Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival to honor the celebrated jazz clarinetist.

Once upon a time in the 1970's, top national jazz musicians made regular visits to the Rochester, and WXXI TV filmed their shows.

WINNING clarinet players, Julian Marc Stringle and Mark Crooks, are coming to the Concorde Club, Eastleigh.