Bud Shank
Sign in to saveAlso known as Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank, Jr., Clifford Shank, Clifford Shank, Jr.
American jazz saxophonist and flautist (1926–2009)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- The Bud Shank Collection
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Known for
- They Shot the Piano Player — Self (archive audio)2023
- Laurindo Almeida: A Tribute to a Master1995
- I Want to Live! — Jazz Combo Member1958
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926-05-27
- Active to
- 2009-04-02
cool jazzjazzjazz and blues
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 80,250
- Total plays
- 412,444
Tags
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Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank, Jr. (May 27, 1926 – April 2, 2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He rose to prominence in the early 1950s playing lead alto and flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra and throughout the decade worked in various small jazz combos. He spent the 1960s as a first-call studio musician in Hollywood. In the 1970s and 1980s he performed regularly with the L. A. Four. Shank ultimately abandoned the flute to focus exclusively on playin
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Dayton
- Place of death
- Tucson
- Occupation
- film score composer
- Educated at
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- cool jazz
- Instrument
- alto saxophone
- Record label
- Concord Records
- Official website
- www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/bud-shank
- Image
- Bud Shank.jpg
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- influenced by
- Art Pepper
- date of birth
- 1926-05-27
- date of death
- 2009-04-02
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- pulmonary embolism
- Commons category
- Bud Shank
- start of work period
- 1946-00-00
- birth name
- Clifford Everett Shank, Jr.
- name in native language
- Bud Shank
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