A brilliant jazz improviser who toured with Count Basie and Billie Holiday, DeFranco devised many new paths for his instrument as small-group... Buddy DeFranco: The Clarinetist Who Swung To Bebop ...

Renowned jazz clarinetist Buddy DeFranco – who collaborated with Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and other top singers and musicians of his era – has died at the age of 91, his family said Friday.

Next week, Missoula's signature jazz festival will convene without its namesake artist, Buddy DeFranco. Often called the "Charlie Parker of the clarinet," and considered one of the few jazz masters of ...

There's perhaps no better person to pay tribute to the late Buddy DeFranco than Eddie Daniels. When he was barely a teenager, Daniels heard DeFranco's album "Mr. Clarinet," a 1953 small-group bebop ...