Lush Life - 1977 recording by the veteran and one of the all time great clarinettists, Buddy DeFranco.

This 1977 recording finds the legendary clarinettist Buddy de Franco with Gordie Fleming (accordian), Michel Donato (bass) and Peter Magadini (drums).

A veteran of the big bands of Krupa, Barnet, Tommy Dorsey and Boyd Raeburn, Buddy won the DownBeat poll for ten straight years (1945-54).

He has made countless albums under his own name and has recorded with everybody from Art Tatum to Oscar Peterson via Art Blakey and Count Basie.