Buddy DeFranco, American clarinet player and bandleader (died 2014)

Buddy DeFranco

American jazz clarinetist (1923–2014)

Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco was an American jazz clarinetist. In addition to his work as a bandleader, DeFranco led the Glenn Miller Orchestra for almost a decade in the 1960s and 1970s.