Buddy Rich Big Band Live At The North Sea Jazz Festival • 15-07-1978 • World of Jazz

Line up:
Buddy Rich (Drums)
Tom Warrington (Bass guitar)
Bob Kaye (Piano)
John Marshall, Mike McGovern, Mark Ohlsen, Chuck Schmidt (Trumpets)
Dale Kirkland, Glenn Franke, George Moran (Trombones)
Steve Marcus, Gary Pribeck, Chuck Wilson, Andy Fusco, Greg Smith (Saxes)

Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuosic technique, power, groove, and speed.
Rich was born in Manhattan, New York, to Jewish vaudevillians Bess (Skolnik) and Robert Rich.:6 His talent for rhythm was first noted by his father, who saw that Buddy could keep a steady beat with spoons at the age of one. He began playing drums in vaudeville when he was 18 months old, billed as "Traps the Drum Wonder." At the peak of Rich's childhood career, he was reportedly the second-highest paid child entertainer in the world (after Jackie Coogan). At 11 he was performing as a bandleader. He received no formal drum instruction, and went so far as to claim that instruction would only degrade his musical
talent. He also never admitted to practicing, claiming to play the drums only during performances and was not known to read music. He expressed great admiration for, and was influenced by, the playing of Chick Webb, Gene Krupa, Dave Tough, and Jo
Jones, among others.

Rich first played jazz w ith a major group in 1937 with Joe Marsala and guitarist Jack Lemaire. He then played with Bunny Berigan (1938) and Artie Shaw (1939), and even instructed a 14-year-old Mel Brooks in drumming for a short period when
playing for Shaw. At 21, Rich participated in his first major recording with the Vic Schoen Orchestra (the band that backed the Andrews Sisters).In 1938, he was also hired to play in Tommy Dorsey's orchestra where he met and performed with Frank Sinatra. In 1942, Rich left the Dorsey band to join the United States Marine Corps. He rejoined the Dorsey group after leaving the Marines two years later. In 1946, Rich formed his own band with financial support from Sinatra, and continued to lead different groups on and off until the early fifties.

The Buddy Rich Big Band in the 1940s In addition to Tommy Dorsey (1939–42, 1945, 1954–55), Rich also played with Benny Carter (1942), Harry James (1953-56–62, 1964, 1965), Les Brown, Charlie Ventura, and Jazz at the Philharmonic, as well as leading his own band and performing with all-star groups. In the early fifties Rich played with Dorsey and began to perform with trumpeter Harry James, an association which lasted until 1966. In 1966, Rich left James to develop a new big band. For most of the period from 1966 until his death, he led successful big bands in an era when the popularity of big bands had waned from their 1930s and 1940s peak. In this later period, Rich continued to play clubs and stated in multiple interviews that the great majority of his big band's performances were at high schools, colleges and universities, with club performances done to a much lesser degree. Rich also served as the session drummer for many recordings, where his playing was often much more understated than in his own big-band performances. Especially notable were Rich's sessions for the late-career comeback recordings of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, on which he worked with pianist Oscar Peterson and his famous trio featuring bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Herb Ellis.

Tracks:
01. Ya Gotta Try (Nestico-Banes Music Inc)
02. Little Train (Phillips-
03. Best Coast (La Barb era-Deaver Enterprises)
04. Grand Concourse (Kaye-Twenty Eightstreet M usic)
05. ‘Round Midnight Hanighan/Monk/Williams-Warner B ros Inc)
06. Birdland (Zawinul-Hendricks Music Inc)
07. Channel 1 Suite (Reddie-EMI U Catalog Inc)
08. Big Swing Face Potts-EMI U Catalog Inc)

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00:00:53 Ya Gotta Try

00:04:39 Little Train

00:11:17 Best Coast

00:15:55 Grand Concourse

00:27:15 Round Midnight

00:33:38 Birdland

00:42:00 Channel 1 Suite

01:05:47 Big Swing Face


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[leobell]

I am absolutely convinced that Mr. Buddy Rich was a Savant. He didn't read musical notation. He had a "photographic Audio memory." He listened to an entire piece once and that's all it took. He knew what to play when and where. I rarely ever use this word - Genius. In my heart, my soul and my mind, Buddy was.

I had the privilege and the honor of seeing Buddy and his Big Band once. I consider myself one of the lucky ones.

Le😎
Drummer/Percussionist
San Francisco, Califusa

[gixxerboy]

Best drummer ever lived..Mr.Buddy Rich..nobody even comes close..period.

[robertbanas]

Have been playing drums for 70 years .
Buddy Rich is by far the best drummer ever.
His left hand is unbelievably fast
Although, Peart,Gadd have there own style
They can't comparesith Buddy Rich
Precise, quality percussion at its finest

[jasongarey]

Nobody drove the band like Buddy. No one!

[ikshields]

I’ve always said that Buddy plays drums the way the rest of us drummers do in dreams, where the sounds just come flying out of us, as effortless as a rush of wind, and so completely inside the music, making it laugh and dance and explode, that it’s as though Nature had bypassed the human body entirely.

There is absolutely no one else like this, even among the best alive now.

[dinodeluca]

5 thumbs down? What the hell is wrong with people?! 60 years old with the stamina of a 20 year old...a great master at his very best. Long live Buddy Rich!

[beatlejim]

Met him...saw him play live....the best ever!

[charlescampbell]

ABSOLUTELY HANDS DOWN THE BEST DRUMMER OF ALL TIME. OVER 33 YEARS SINCE HIS PASSING AND NO ONE HAS EVEN COME CLOSE.

[Chefnekromant]

Metalhead here. I'm mostly into Death Metal and the metal genre in general has so many mindblowing drummers but Buddy Rich will alway be the best drummer ever. Absolutely legend.

[cjgaddy]

Tpts(L-r): Mike McGovern, Chuck Schmidt(L), Mark Ohlsen, John Marshall
Bones(L-r): Glenn Franke, Dale Kirkland(L), George Moran(b)
Saxes(L-r): Steve Marcus, Andy Fusco, Chuck Wilson(L), Gary Pribek, Greg Smith(b)
P: Bob Kaye B: Tom Warrington
Buddy Rich Big Band Live – July 1978 Europe Tour (incl. N.Sea Jazz Fest.)

[michaelreidperry]

Being a fifteen year old when I with my family saw Buddy Rich and his band play at Disneyland, me, cross-legged on the floor just fifteen feet away, was in musical shock. It was that impressive and beautiful. It’s been in my blood ever since.

[scottmoyer]

Such a great loss with Buddy gone. He was simply the absolute greatest!!

[GEMINDIGO]

What phenomenal timing - the whole band was tight as...

[kippgriffin]

Im 56 been playing the skins since i was two and to this day this man amazes me unreal fastest ive ever seen love me some buddy rich

[ikshields]

Glorious, glorious, glorious. This is drumming and big-band heaven, from start to finish.

[IWGChannel]

I've played drums for 27 years. When I was a young man I bought some Buddy Rich albums. They got stolen and I never really got back into Jazz. Listening to this music now, and seeing Buddy live, MY GOD. He is absolutely in a class by himself on drums.

[mikerdaniels]

Opened for him in 1968. Showed me his Cadillac limousine and his newly acquired Sony video recorder

[bkf]

I had forgotten how uncannily tight this band was in the 70's. Amazing band.

[miltinhobatera]

Como baterista com formação em big band, posso afirmar que NUNCA existiu nem existirá um baterista igual ao BR