Jazz Before Bedtime: Show Eyes - Buddy DeFranco

Show Eyes (feat. Kenny Drew & Art Blakey)

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Tonight's track is by one of the few great bop clarinetists, Buddy DeFranco. DeFranco started his career at a time when the big band swing of Benny Goodman was giving way to the small group bebop of Charlie Parker. But unlike other clarinetists, DeFranco did not switch to saxophone and continued to play the clarinet exclusively, while still adopting the new musical language of bebop.

This tune comes from the album "Mr. Clarinet", in which he leads a quartet through several classic standards and a few original bop compositions.

Personnel:

  • Buddy DeFranco - clarinet
  • Kenny Drew - piano
  • Milt Hinton - bass
  • Art Blakey - drums