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{{Short description|American saxophonist and flautist}}
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▲| birth_name = Clifford Everett Shank, Jr.
▲| birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|5|27}}
▲| birth_place = [[Dayton, Ohio]], United States
| death_place = [[Tucson, Arizona]], U.S.
▲| death_date = {{death date and age|2009|04|02|1926|5|27}}
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| years_active = 1946–2009
▲| instrument = [[Alto saxophone]], flute, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
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▲| associated_acts = {{Unbulleted list|[[Laurindo Almeida]]|[[Bill Perkins (saxophonist)|Bill Perkins]]|[[Bob Cooper (musician)|Bob Cooper]]|[[Ravi Shankar]]|[[Bill Mays]]|[[The L.A. Four (band)|The L.A. Four]]}}
▲| website = {{URL|1=www.budshankalto.com}}
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'''Clifford Everett''' "'''Bud'''" '''Shank
==Biography==
Bud Shank was born in [[Dayton, Ohio
In 1974, Shank joined with [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]], [[Shelly Manne]] (replaced by [[Jeff Hamilton (drummer)|Jeff Hamilton]] after 1977), and [[Laurindo Almeida]] to form the group [[The L.A. Four (band)|the L.A. Four]], who recorded and toured extensively through 1982.<ref name="AMG"/> Shank helped to popularize both Latin-flavored and chamber jazz music, and as a musician's musician also performed with orchestras as diverse as the [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra|Royal Philharmonic]], the New American Orchestra, the [[Gerald Wilson]] Big Band, [[Stan Kenton]]'s Neophonic Orchestra, and [[Duke Ellington]].<ref>Cotterrell, Roger, ‘Bud Shank: A New Image’ [[Jazz Forum]] 106 (May 1987), 23-27.</ref>
In 2005, he formed the Bud Shank Big Band in Los Angeles to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Stan Kenton's Neophonic Orchestra.<ref name="AMG"/>
A documentary film about
Shank died on April 2, 2009, of a [[pulmonary embolism]] at his home in [[Tucson, Arizona]], one day after returning from [[San Diego, California]], where he was recording a new album.<ref name=LATObit>{{cite news |title=Bud Shank dies at 82; alto saxophonist was immersed in West Coast jazz scene |first=Jon |last=Thurber |date=April 6, 2009 |
== Discography ==
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*[http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=381 Interview at All About Jazz]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090930000824/http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/shank-bud-clifford-everett Bud Shank], encyclopedia entry at [https://web.archive.org/web/20151021131326/http://www.jazz.com/ Jazz.com]
* {{discogs artist|Bud Shank}}
* {{imdb name|0788128}}
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