Jazz legend Buddy DeFranco dies 老年の 91 in Florida after eight 影響力のある １０年間s in the music 産業

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Buddy DeFranco, who led the way on his jazz clarinet in the 移行 between the swing and bebop 時代s, has died 老年の 91.

DeFranco's family told The Associated 圧力（をかける） on Friday that the famed musician died on Wednesday evening at a パナマ City, Florida hospital.

His wife, Joyce, said he had been in 拒絶する／低下するing health in 最近の years.

Jazz legend: Buddy DeFranco, shown in 1955 with his clarinet, has died 老年の 91

The couple lived in パナマ City.

DeFranco began his professional career as a 十代の少年少女 in the late 1930s.

He made both concert and 記録，記録的な／記録するing 外見s with many of the 最高の，を越す singers and musicians of his 時代, 含むing Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum.

世界的な 弔慰s: DeFranco, shown in 2006, 成し遂げるd with some of the 最高の，を越す musicians of his 時代

'We have received 弔慰s from around the world,' said Joyce DeFranco.

She said her husband's 影響（力）s on music will last long beyond his lifetime.

'Buddy DeFranco almost 選び出す／独身-handedly was the clarinetist who moved the harmonic and rhythmic language 今後 from where Benny Goodman left off into the much more adventurous 領土 of bebop and beyond, while never forgetting his roots in swing music,' said 主要な jazz clarinetist Ken Peplowski in an email to the AP.

'He was also unfailingly 肉親，親類d and supportive to every other clarinetist who （機の）カム after him,' Peplowski 追加するd.

DeFranco was born in 1923 in Camden, New Jersey and raised in South Philadelphia and began playing the clarinet at age nine.

By age 14, he had won a 国家の Tommy Dorsey Swing contest and began his road career in 1939.

DeFranco said his favorite clarinetist at the time was big 禁止（する）d leader Artie Shaw.

Swing roots: DeFranco lead the way for jazz clarinetists in the 移行 from swing to bebop

'Artie Shaw was way ahead of most clarinetists and most jazz players,' DeFranco said in a 2007 interview for the 国家の Endowment Of The Arts.

DeFranco appeared in 最高の，を越す swing 禁止（する）d in the 1940s led by 遺伝子 Krupa, Charlie Barnet and Tommy Dorsey.

In 1950, as the big 禁止（する）d 時代 was in 拒絶する／低下する, he joined the Count Basie Septet.

一方／合間, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were 主要な a modern jazz 革命, and DeFranco became excited about the improvisatory freedom in the new style known as bebop after 審理，公聴会 Parke r play at Minton's club in Harlem.

'When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz,' said DeFranco in the 2007 NEA interview.

Own show: DeFranco had his own show The Buddy DeFranco Jazz 会議 on public television

'From that point on, I was sold with ... the idea of bebop. But that 現在のd another problem with the clarinet because ... it was much more difficult to play. It was 背信の in many ways as far as fingering and articulation.'

In the 1950s, DeFranco 成し遂げるd with Parker, Gillespie and other bebop legends.

He formed his own quartet with drummer Art Blakey, ピアニスト Kenny Drew and bassist Eugene Wright, and 小旅行するd Europe with Holiday in 1954.

Jazz at the Philharmonic 生産者 Norman Granz paired DeFranco with ピアニストs Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson for memorable recordings.

The musician never lost his affinity for swing music, and led the Glenn Miller Orchestra from 1966 to 1974.

Jazz legends: DeFranco is shown in 2006 with fellow jazz legend Freddie Hubbard in New York City?

He also worked extensively in the studios and on television, and had his own show The Buddy DeFranco Jazz 会議 on public television.

He formed a 継続している musical 共同 with vibraphonist Terry Gibbs and they 記録，記録的な／記録するd a 一連の albums in the 1980s and 1990s.?

DeFranco made more than 160 recordings.

The Cuban -born jazz clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera credits DeFranco with helping keep the jazz clarinet 遺産／遺物 alive when younger musicians were shunning the 器具 because of its difficulty to master in modern jazz.

'He was not only a 広大な／多数の／重要な artist, but a very elegant gentleman with a 広大な／多数の／重要な sense of camaraderie,' D'Rivera said in an email.

In 2007, DeFranco was 指名するd a 国家の Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, the nation's highest jazz 栄誉（を受ける）.

'Charlie Parker and Art Tatum to me were genius, and I'm 権利 below that,' DeFranco said in the 2007 NEA interview. 'I did in my own way do something different on the 器具 and that's the way I'd like to be remembered.'

DeFranco's family asked that 出資／貢献s in his memory be made to the 非，不，無-利益（をあげる） Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival which is held each spring at the University of Montana in Missoula.

DeFranco is 生き残るd by his wife and his son Chad.