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The Texas Tenor

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: CD1: Stompin’ At The Savoy; Body And Soul; Buddy’s Blues; Broadway; Just You, Just Me; In A Mellotone; I Surrender Dear. CD2: Jive At Five; There Goes My Heart; Somebody Loves Me; Sweethearts On Parade; I Got A Right To Sing The Blues; Constantly; I Never Knew; Somebody Loves Me (alt take); Jive At Five (alt take).

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Buddy Tate: The Texas Tenor

Read "The Texas Tenor" reviewed by Chris Mosey


When Herschel Evans died in 1939, Buddy Tate took his place in the Count Basie band. Basie used Tate's muscular, blues- based tenor as a foil to the lighter toned playing of Lester Young. Tate played with Basie for the next nine years fulfilling the same role with Young's successors, Don Byas, Illinois Jacquet, Lucky Thompson ...


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