When virtuosos with the technical gifts of Buddy DeFranco, Oscar Peterson, and Joe Pass get together, it might be legitimate to worry that their notes will collide. A part of true jazz virtuosity, however, is in accommodating one’s colleagues; being there when needed but not walking on their lines, as it were. Great accompanists, Peterson and Pass provide DeFranco settings that enrich and stimulate the great clarinetist but never interfere with his astonishing flights of bebop fancy. Th… MORE