Jazz Articles about The Buddy Collette Big Band

The Buddy Collette Big Band: Live at El Camino College

by Jack Bowers
July 26, 2006

Another big band recording that was a long time coming but well worth the wait. Saxophonist Buddy Collette's twenty-member ensemble was taped in May 1990 during a concert at El Camino College in Torrance, California. The plan was to release the concert recording as an album, but as producer David Keller writes, “life intervened and the tapes lay neglected until a year ago. As it turns out, sound engineer Steve Barker's master tapes had been destroyed but Keller had kept ...