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Buddy DeFranco

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Aliases
Buddy De Franco
Buddy De Franco and His Orchestra
Buddy DeFranco and His Orchestra
The Buddy DeFranco Quartet
Buddy DeFranco Quintet
Buddy DeFranco & Strings
Real name
Boniface Ferdinand Leonard DeFranco
Born
February 17, 1923
Died
December 24, 2014
Country
United States
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Jazz clarinetist born in Camden, New Jersey and raised in nearby Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. DeFranco started out as a swing and big band player, but became one of the relatively few bop clarinet players.
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