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 ...

A flood of student musicians and a quintet's worth of professional jazz musicians will be in town this week for the Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival at the University of Montana. “We have 50 groups again, ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. Renowned jazz clarinetist Buddy DeFranco, who led the way on his instrument in the transition between the swing and bebop eras, has died at the age of 91, his family said Friday.

P>John Burnett has a day job as a jazz broadcaster for FM station WDCB in Chicago. In 1999 he put together a very fine orchestra made up of top notch Chicago musicians. Many of them have had ...

MISSOULA -- The world-famous clarinet player who lent his name to the University of Montana’s premier jazz festival and transformed the international genre through his unique bebop style passed away ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — 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 ...