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jazz musicianforged way for clarinet through bebop
Norma Doreen O'Brien, of Sisters Oct. 25, 1931 - Dec. 24, 2014 Arrangements: Deschutes Memorial Chapel 541-382-5592 www.deschutesmemorialchapel.com
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By Charles Strum New York Times News Service
Buddy DeFranco, the innovative c l a r i netist wh o rose from the remains of the
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swing era to forge new and lasting prominence as the instrument's
the '40s, as the saxophone, long the stalwart of big-band woodwind sections, moved into greater solo prominence
Nov. 20, 1939 - Dec. 20, 2014
Florida. He was 91. His death
er, attacked bebop head-on
was confirmed by his wife, Joyce. From 1939, the year he graduated from a high school music program in Philadelphia, until just a few years ago, DeFranco was rarely off a stage, large or small. After a decade of roadwork with big-name dance bands, DeFranco — tall, handsome
and mastered it," Whitney
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and not yet 30 — was poised to inherit the throne shared
for years by Benny Goodman, the King of Swing,
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and Artie Shaw, the King of the Clarinet. But by the time that moment arrived, the bigband clarinet realm had di-
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minished significantly, overtaken by the saxophone and
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modern jazz.
Captivated by the complex, challenging new sounds and increasingly aware that the music market was evolving, DeFranco moved quickly to carve out a fresh career in bebop, a perilous undertak-
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1999, was putting his own stamp on whatever music he was playing "so that you
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Jennifer Szymaszek The Associated Press file photo
Jazz legend Buddy DeFranco, left, shares a laugh with fellow jazz legend Freddie Hubbard in 2006. DeFranco died at the age of 91 Wednesday, his family said Friday.
baum Technical/Vocational people will say, when they School). He graduated at 16 hear your record: 'That's who and was hired by Scat Davis become an original, so that
it is. That's Bird. That's Art Tatum. That's Oscar Peter-
shortly after that. D eFranco w a s
son. That's Buddy.'"
three times and divorced
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ultimately gave up playing, he was more consistent and
more disciplined. Over a 70-year career, De-
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Franco became a perennial fan favorite, winning Down
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Glass
bar in 1975.
Continued from B1 Brady said her decision to bring the matter to the
vid Black, who has returned
attention of the disciplinary
a Ridgeview High School aide who was accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy, and Richard Samuels, a Bend man who alleged
j azz is often t r ickier on a
addition to his w ife, whom
said Glass appeared late for hearings for a period of time several years ago. After she sent him a warning letter, Glass made a "concerted effort" to be on time,
onist Tommy Gumina in the
Brady wrote, until he began failing to appear altogether. Glass will be eligible for reinstatement Jan. 15. Glass was also suspended from the bar for disciplinary reasons in 1991 for 90 days, ac-
1960s. Through the '80s and '90s, DeFranco and the vi-
cording to the Oregon State Bar. He was admitted to the
tions, he also collaborated with th e v i r t uoso accordi-
braphonist Terry Gibbs often performed together. same. But a clarinet goes up He was named a National 12 tones, and the fingering Endowment for the Arts Jazz changes, a challenge De- Master, the country's highest Franco often mentioned in honor for jazz musicians, in interviews. 2006. But his quest to con-
"It's hard," he told The New York Times in 1983. "For a clarinet to keep pace with a a lot of energy. It could take
s t i n t s with a band called the Jovial D eFranco's m o ther,
around the world:
became known for his more
former Louise Giordano, who
Joe Macko, 86: Former minor l e ague b a seball player who hit 306 home runs in nearly 2,000 games before a long career as a clubhouse manager with
intimate collaborations with
worked in clerical and facto-
other greats, among them the pianists George Shear-
ry jobs, was, he recalled, frail and high-strung and was
ing, Count Basie, Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson and the
committed to a state mental
drummer Art Blakey.
ter 35 years. With their fa-
the Texas Rangers. Died
After a brief, unsuccessful stint as the leader of his own
ther struggling to make ends
big band in 1951, he moved on to small-group perfor-
en in by an aunt and uncle. When Buddy was 5, his father coached him on his first
mances around the country
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lenges never ceased. " You know, this i s
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all
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1974 race for governor of South Carolina pivoted the statehouse away from longstanding Democratic cont rol, and who went on t o serve as President Ronald
Reagan's first energy secretary. Died Friday in his
del. "Once I was doing some s chool clinics, and on e o f
the great symphonic clarinet players, Daniel Bonade of the Philadelphia Orchestra, was doing another clinic in the same school. I used to pick the brains of as many clarinet players as I could, to see how they got their sound,
South Carolina. James Martin, 99: World a n d K o r ean w a r
veteran who dodged death three times. He was a lieutenant colonel. Died Dec.
18 in Clearwater, Florida. — From wire reports
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thing. So I went to hear his clinic, and at the end I sidled up and said, 'When do you finally master the clarinet'?' And he said: 'Master the
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hospital, where she died af-
"It's hard. For a clarinet to keeppace with a contemporary big band, or with a rhythm section, takes a lot of energy. It could take 20 years off your life. Young people keep saying to me, 'I didn't know you could play modern jazz on a clarinet.'"
home in M o unt Pleasant,
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tricky stuff," DeFranco told j azz c r i ti c H o w ar d M a n -
until 1966, when he returned instrument, th e m a n dolin, to swing and a steady in- which he played by ear, but come, taking charge of the by 8, he had switched to the still-popular Glenn Miller Or- clarinet and the saxophone. chestra for eight years. He continued hi s m u sical DeFranco's crucial career education at the Mastbaum change did not come all at School of Music in Philadelonce but e v olved t h rough phia (now the Jules Mast-
tician whose victory in the
a Deschutes County Sher-
WIHDOW TREATS
the
From the late 1940s on, he
James Edwards, 87: Dentist turned Republican poli-
Glass has also represented Amanda Hinshaw,
tave, the fingering is still the
Deaths of note from
Texas.
to court on reckless driving and other charges 10 years after a manslaughter con-
interests," she wrote. Brady
twice. After a brief first mar-
with Gene Krupa, Charlie Night Owls, whose members clarinet? That's the funniest Barnet and Tommy Dorsey. were all blind. thing I ever heard.'"
Friday at an assisted living center in Fort Worth,
Glass is representing Da-
on the clarinet, stay with that
20 years off your life. Young — even mortal dissipation people keep saying to me, 'I — of its stars, DeFranco was didn't know you could play noted, and occasionally nee- modern jazz on a clarinet.'" dled, for his relentless daiDeFranco was born on ly practice regimen. On the Feb. 17, 1923, in C a mden, bandstand he was focused New Jersey, and grew up in yet easygoing, preferring to Philadelphia, one of five chilshowcase fluid playing over dren. His father, Leonardo, i nstrument-waving hi s t r i - an immigrant from Italy, lost onics. His first big job was his eyesight to an infection playing alto saxophone and and eventually trained to be clarinet with the band led by a piano tuner. He was also an the trumpeter Johnny (Scat) amateur guitarist who played
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Butterfield said she wanted
Tumalo.
during the last 60 years," riage, he wed Mitchell VanDeFranco said. "Periodical- ston; they had a son, Chrisly, I'll envelop a new concept topher, who died in 2001. In
Beat magazine's a nnual popularity poll 20 times and drawing f r esh a u diences contemporary big band, or with his warm tone and ef- with a rhythm section, takes
day after submission, by1 p.m. Friday for Sunday publication, andby 9a.m. Mondayfor Tuesday
and three videos, demonstrat-
viction in connection with a speed race on Alfalfa Market Road.
clarinet than on the more i nterview i n 2 0 12. U n l i k e forgiving saxophone. For Goodman, Morgenstern said, one thing, the saxophone is "he had an ear to deal har- an octave instrument; if you monically with modern jazz" press a key to go up an oc— and u n l ik e Shaw, w h o
acres, stretching from Bend to
council was n o t b a sed on ill will toward Glass. "When he does appear as scheduled, he is clearly focused on his client's best
"I had about six c areers
ic and historian, said in an
are accepted until noon Monday through Friday
Butterfield's one-hour presentation included 100 photos
to give people a sense of how the districts started and what — delivering water to farmers they are like now. and ranchers. An hour of discussion typi"Just like a city supplies cally followed her talk. "They asked lots and lots of drinking water to customers, we supply irrigation water to questions," she said. our customers," she said. Butterfield said the trip was The photos induded his- rewarding and she feels she toric images of the Swalley gotbackmore than she gave. "It just made you pretty Irrigation District, which was started by eight families in proud to be an American," 1899 and originally called the Butterfield said. Deschutes Reclamation and — Reporter: 541-617-7812, Irrigation Company, accordddarling@bendbulletin.com
er magazine profile in 1990. "He developed such fluency and invention and speed supreme jazz clarinetist. His
The district now supplies 655 water users covering 4,320
ing the basic functions of an irrigation district in the West
Balliett wrote in a New York-
work has never faltered, and he has kept the instrument
ing to the district's website.
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for a while, almost discard- he married in 1975, he is suring on a n i n strument that ing what I was doing before, vived by their son, Charles. requires nearly superhuman though not quite. I gradualDeFranco recorded dozskill and dexterity to keep ly wound up with a sensible ens of albums; his 1958 alup with bebop's sometimes mixture, combining whatev- bum "Cross Country Suite" freakishly fast tempos. er new thing I was doing with won a Grammy Award for "Buddy is unique because my earlier way of playing." its composer-arranger, Nelhe was really the only clariB ut dealing with th e f e son Riddle. An avid experinetist who caught on to the rociously fast rhythms and menter with musical styles new jazz language," Dan chord changes of modern and instrumental combina-
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Suzanne Butterfield, second from right, while in Moldova where tricts like herself. She holds a bouquet of wild sunflowers.
the driving sound of bebop,
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