Buddy DeFranco(1923-2014)
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Clarinetist, bandleader, arranger, conductor and composer, educated at
the Mastbaum School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also studied with
Meyer Levin and Ross Wyre. At fourteen, he won a Major Bowes
competition and a Tommy Dorsey swing contest as a jazz clarinetist.
With his brother Lawrence and also Elliot Lawrence, he formed a teenage
band which was featured on radio. For sixteen years, he toured in dance
bands, and led his own sextet, big band, and quartet. He would later go
on to assume the leadership of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Joining
ASCAP in 1960, his popular-song and instrumental compositions include
"Warm Evening", "Strings Have Strung", and "Really
Swell".
