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Bud Shank was an American jazz musician, renowned for his skills on the alto and baritone saxophone, as well as the flute (C-flute, alto, and bass flute), and for his arrangements. He was born on May 27, 1926, in Dayton, Ohio, and passed away on April 2, 2009, in Tucson, Arizona. Shank attended the University of North Carolina from 1944 to 1946 before relocating to California, where he studied with a trumpeter/composer and played in big bands from 1947 to 1948 and again from 1950 to 1951. He was among the first modern jazz artists in the early 1950s to record using the flute, although this aspect of his work is not often highlighted. Throughout the 1960s, Shank spent a significant amount of time recording in Los Angeles studios before forming the L.A. Four in the 1970s. While he practiced jazz flute during this time, he returned to playing the alto saxophone, which became his primary instrument for most of his career, in the mid-1980s.

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