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Lawrence "Bud" Freeman (April 13, 1906 – March 15, 1991) [1] was an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing tenor saxophone, but also the clarinet. [2]
Bud Freeman was an American jazz musician, who, along with Coleman Hawkins, was one of the first tenor saxophonists in jazz. Freeman was one of the young musicians inspired by New Orleans ensembles and the innovations of Louis Armstrong to synthesize the Chicago style in the late 1920s.
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Learn about Bud Freeman, one of the most influential jazz tenor-saxophonists in the Big Band era. He played with Red Nichols, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Eddie Condon, and wrote the ballad "Zen Is When".
One of the most revered tenor saxophonists of early jazz, Bud Freeman (1906-91) recorded with Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, Jack Teagarden, Dave Tough, and...
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Apr 18, 1991 · For 65 years Bud Freeman played jazz, and toward the end his soloing had in a sense come full circle: he dealt once again in unadorned melody statements and riffing, and he still played with...
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Mar 16, 1991 · Lawrence (Bud) Freeman, a leading tenor saxophonist, died yesterday at the Warren Barr Pavilion, a nursing home in Chicago. He was 84 years old.
