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Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank, Jr. (May 27, 1926, Dayton, OhioApril 2, 2009, Tucson, Arizona) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He played flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra, on various recording sessions including The Zodiac : Cosmic Sounds, and occasionally in live performances (as with The L.A. Four) until he gave it up later in his career to focus exclusively on the alto saxophone. He also recorded one album playing only tenor saxophone.

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Biography

Bud Shank began with clarinet in Vandalia, Ohio, but had switched to saxophone before attending the University of North Carolina. While at UNC, Shank was initiated into the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. In 1946 he worked with Charlie Barnet before moving on to Kenton and the West coast jazz scene. He also had a strong interest in what might now be termed world music, playing bossa nova in the early 1950s (years before it became a craze), and in 1962 fusing jazz with Indian traditions in collaboration with Indian composer and sitar-player Ravi Shankar.

In the first decades of his career Shank played the flute as a second instrument, but during the 1980s dropped it and became purely an alto saxophonist. In 2005 he formed the Bud Shank Big Band in Los Angeles to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Stan Kenton's Neophonic Orchestra.

Discography

As leader

  • Brazilliance, Volumes 1 and 2 (1953) early bossa nova with Laurindo Almeida
  • Bud Shank with Shorty Rogers (1954) - Pacific Jazz
  • Bud Shank and Bill Perkins (1955-58) - Pacific Jazz
  • Cool Fool (1954 and 1955) joined by Maynard Ferguson and Bob Brookmeyer
  • Theme Music from The James Dean Story (1957) - with Chet Baker
  • Blowin' Country (1958) - Pacific Jazz with Bob Cooper
  • Crystal Comments (1979) flute and two pianos with Alan Broadbent
  • Drifting Timelessly (1990) with the Roumanis String Quartet
  • A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing (1992) with Bob Cooper and the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra
  • By Request: Bud Shank Meets the Rhythm Section (1997)- Muse Records quartet led by Shank on alto
  • Taking the Long Way Home (2006) his first album as a big band leader, with arrangements by Bob Florence and others. Shank's alto is the featured instrument.
  • Beyond the Red Door (2007) Shank playing alto saxophone in duet with pianist Bill Mays.

As sideman

With The Mamas & the Papas

With Gene Clark




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