Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Buddy De Franco [videorecording].

Author

De Franco, Buddy, 1923-2014

Publication

2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Friedwald, Will, 1961-
• Sapione, James.
• Jazz at Lincoln Center (Organization)
• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Description

2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Buddy De Franco speaks with Will Friedwald about how Benny Goodman introduced the clarinet and swing bands to the United States; starting to play at eight years old, becoming interested in jazz by twelve years old; winning a contest in Philadelphia at the age of thirteen and getting to play with the Tommy Dorsey band; being hired by Dorsey ten years after that contest; his first road-band experience playing with Johnnie "Scat" Davis; playing with Gene Krupa; Krupa's arrest in San Fransisco and the drug stigma attached to jazz musicians; playing with Count Basie; pop solos becoming part of arrangements; getting fired by Tommy Dorsey; Benny Goodman as a bandleader; Artie Shaw versus Benny Goodman as bandleaders; touring Europe with Billie Holiday; working with Ella Fitzgerald; his collaboration with George Shearing; establishing himself as a modern jazz clarinetist; playing with George Russell; starting his own group; the first time he heard Charlie Parker; seeing Parker play and knowing that was the direction music would go; Tommy Dorsey as bandleader; doubling on alto saxophone for years; playing with the Glenn Miller Orchestra; Bill Finnegan charts; his one regret being that he never said yes to playing with Duke Ellington.

Series Statement

Duke jazz histories

Uniform Title

Duke jazz histories.

Subjects

• Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 > Influence
• De Franco, Buddy, 1923- > Interviews
• Jazz musicians > Interviews
• Clarinetists > Interviews

Note

• Interview with Buddy De Franco conducted by Will Friedwald, in New York, N.Y., on May 29, 2009.

Event (note)

• This interview was videotaped at the Oral History Studio of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on May 29, 2009, by James Sapione.

Funding (note)

• Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Call Number

*LDV 1247

OCLC

427887167

Author

De Franco, Buddy, 1923-2014, interviewee.

Title

Interview with Buddy De Franco [videorecording].

Imprint

2009.

Series

Duke jazz histories

Duke jazz histories.

Event

This interview was videotaped at the Oral History Studio of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on May 29, 2009, by James Sapione.

Funding

Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

System Details

DVD.

Added Author

Friedwald, Will, 1961- Interviewer

Sapione, James. Videographer

Jazz at Lincoln Center (Organization)

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Research Call Number

*LDV 1247