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Buddy Greco (1926-2017)

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Marc Myers
Jan 12, 2017
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Buddy Greco, a solid swinging jazz pianist, a supper-club pop vocalist and probably the last surviving member of Benny Goodman's "Undercurrent Blues" bebop band of 1948-49, died January 10. He was 90.


Born in Philadelphia, Greco had his work cut out for him from the start. His father was one of the country's leading opera critics and his mother was an ac…

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