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 ...

UFO Bass Records proudly announces the release of "The Buddy Collette Big Band - Live at El Camino College"

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2006

Buddy Collette, the jazz flute and saxophone virtuoso, has been characteristically modest about his stature as a big band leader; with little fanfare, his eponymous CD as big band leader was nominated for a Grammy for a 1996 release on Bridge Records. That live concert , commissioned by the Library of Congress and performed in Washington, DC, included longtime Collette compadres Chico Hamilton, Jackie Kelso, Gerald Wiggins and Britt Woodman.

Now, Collette returns to the spotlight with a stunning recording ...
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