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By 1959 he graduated from Manhattan School of Music with a Bachelor degree in Music.
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Buzz Gardner
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Born in 1931 in Cleveland, Ohio. Guarnera started playing music at a very young age. He was influenced into Big Band and jazz music
At the age of 16, Guarnera started his music career touring with Midwest and Jack Wilson.
By then moved to New York City, study at Mannes School of Music. By 1951 he served in the military being based in Trieste, Italy.
He played in a military band with which included flautist Herbie Mann. In 1953 Guarnera called it quits and left the military service, and moved to Paris, France.
While in Paris he played with René Thomas and André Hodeir, recording a couple of albums with them.
In 1955 Gardner moved to back New York to study at the Manhattan School of Music. The brothers played in Latin and jazz groups together. In 1962 Buzz met up with Don Preston again, playing in Don Preston"s Unnamed Experimental Project.
By 1968, Buzz changed his style of genre playing in avant-garde/jazz fusion music background.
Buzz only appeared in two of the Mothers of Invention"s albums, Burnt Weeny Sandwich and Weasels Ripped My Flesh. In August 1969, Zappa disbanded the Mothers.
Buzz and Bunk went along with to play with John Balkin performed as Menage A Trois from 1969-1972. The brothers appeared on "s 1970 Starsailor and Dominic Troiano"s 1972 debut album Dominic Troiano.
In 1980, Buzz reunited with some of the Mothers of Invention group members, with Bunk, Jimmy Carl Black, Jim Sherwood, and Don Preston.
The group would be called the Grandmothers. The group recorded a few albums and reunited in 2002. Buzz died on February 1, 2004, at the age of 72.
