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Buddy DeFranco, a Common card
Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco was an American jazz clarinetist, universally recognized as the premier clarinetist of the bebop era.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 28
- Power
- 88
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,400
Power 88 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- While the clarinet was the defining instrument of the swing era, DeFranco was virtually alone in successfully adapting the instrument to the complex harmonic structures and rapid tempos of bebop.
- During his early career, DeFranco played with big band leaders such as Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, and Gene Krupa before joining small groups alongside bebop innovators like Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie.
- His technical mastery and innovative phrasing earned him unprecedented critical acclaim, winning twenty DownBeat magazine awards, nine Metronome awards, and sixteen Playboy All-Star awards.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Buddy DeFranco article was read about 9,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 28: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get Buddy DeFranco
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Buddy DeFranco (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : William P. Gottlieb, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.