Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1906
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Crazeology
- Crazeology (Bayou Jazz Lives)
- If you know of a better life please tell me
- You don't look like a musician
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Lawrence "Bud" Freeman (April 13, 1906 – March 15, 1991) was an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing the tenor saxophone, but also able at the clarinet. He had a smooth and full tenor sax style with a heavy robust swing. He was one of the most influential and important jazz tenor saxophonists of the Big Band era. His major recordings were "The Eel", "Tillie's Downtown Now", "Crazeology", "The Buzzard", and "After Awhile", composed with Benny Goodman. <a href
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lawrence
- Family name
- Freeman
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Occupation
- saxophonist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- clarinet
- Image
- Bud Freeman (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Bud Freeman
- date of birth
- 1906-04-13
- date of death
- 1991-03-15
- place of burial
- Graceland Cemetery
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