Buddy De Franco

INCLUDES 1 BONUS TRACK

This long-out-of-print LP featuring the brilliant clarinetist Buddy De Franco with the Oscar Peterson Quartet (Peterson’s trio plus drummer Louie Bellson) presents all standards. De Franco and Peterson produce plenty of fireworks with the majority of the numbers being taken up-tempo. De Franco sounds flawless on clarinet, making it sound so easy to play lightning-fast runs; few other clarinetists have ever come close. The final selection, a very long and extremely up- tempo version of “Lullaby in Rhythm,” has the same five musicians plus trombonist Bill Harris, tenor saxophonist Flip Phillips, and both Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie on trumpets.

PERSONNEL:

BUDDY DeFRANCO, clarinet
OSCAR PETERSON, piano
HERB ELLIS, guitar
RAY BROWN, bass
LOUIE BELLSON, drums

Los Angeles, October 29, 1954.

BONUS TRACK [7] add ROY ELDRIDGE & DIZZY GILLESPIE, trumpet
BILL HARRIS, trombone and FLIP PHILLIPS, tenor sax
Los Angeles, October 30, 1954.

TRACKS:

01 Sweet And Lovely
02 Fascinating Rhythm
03 Love For Sale
04 Easy To Love
05 Pick Yourself Up
06 They Can’t Take That Away From Me
07 Lullaby In Rhythm (*)

Total Time: 67:46 min.
(*) Bonus track