- Aliases
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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
- Comments
- 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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