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The Bud Shank Big Band: Taking the Long Way Home

by Jack Bowers
May 30, 2006

The Bud Shank Big Band Taking the Long Way Home Jazzed Media 2006 Just in time for his eightieth birthday, Jazzed Media has released renowned alto saxophonist Bud Shank's first-ever album as leader of his own big band, the aptly named Taking the Long Way Home. From the opening bars ...

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Bud Shank at Chris' Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia

by Edward Zucker
May 30, 2006

Bud Shank Chris' Jazz Cafe Philadelphia, PA May 19-20, 2006 The jazz landscape in the late 1940's and 1950's features stories of numerous musicians who died or faded away from drug abuse, alcohol abuse or misadventure. A few survivors from that era are still going strong. Altoist Bud Shank ...

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The Bud Shank Big Band: Taking The Long Way Home

Read "Taking The Long Way Home" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
May 29, 2006

An integral part of jazz for over sixty years, alto great Bud Shank has compiled over fifty diverse albums in his long and distinguished career. While he grew up with the Big Band Era and later, as a professional, became part of the Charlie Barnet and Stan Kenton big bands, he never desired to lead his ...

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Bud Shank: Bouncing with Bud and Phil - Live at Yoshi's

Read "Bouncing with Bud and Phil - Live at Yoshi's" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes
May 13, 2006

This document from a 2004 tour stop at one of the West Coast's best-known rooms finds two septuagenarian saxophone players revisiting and reshaping songs they have been performing throughout the years, often as duets. Play close attention to their rendition of Eden Ahbez's beautiful “Nature Boy, which Bud Shank introduces as a slow-tempo ballad, until the ...

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Bouncing With Bud & Phil

By Bud Shank

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2005
Track listing: Bouncing With Bud; Helen's Song; Nature Boy; Carousels; Summer Serenade; Gemma's Eyes; Minority.

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Bouncing with Bud & Phil - Live at Yoshi's

By Bud Shank

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2005
Track listing: Bouncing with Bud; Helen's Song; Nature Boy; Carousels; Summer Serenade; Gemma's Eyes; Minority

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Bouncing With Bud & Phil: Live At Yoshi's

By Bud Shank

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2005
Track listing: Bouncing With Bud, Helen's Song, Nature Boy, Carousels, Summer Serenade, Gemma's Eyes, Minority.

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Bouncin' With Bud & Phil: Live at Yoshi's

By Bud Shank

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2005
Track listing: Bouncin' With Bud, Helen's Song, Nature Boy, Carousels, Summer Serenade, Gemma's Eyes, Minority.

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Bud Shank Quartet With Phil Woods: Bouncing With Bud & Phil

Read "Bouncing With Bud & Phil" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
August 26, 2005

In his liner notes to Bouncing With Bud & Phil, Doug Ramsey makes an interesting point that both of these living legend altoists are the musical offspring of Charlie Parker, even though their home bases are located in California/the Pacific Northwest and the Delaware Water Gap in Pennsylvania, respectively. Bud Shank was recognized as ...

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Bud Shank Quartet with Phil Woods: Bouncing with Bud & Phil - Live at Yoshi's

Read "Bouncing with Bud & Phil - Live at Yoshi's" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
July 26, 2005

When you think of saxophone summits, the tenor is usually what comes to mind--for example, Dexter Gordon with Gene Ammons, or more recently, David Liebman with Ellery Eskelin. Far rarer is the pairing of two alto players, but the teaming of septuagenarians Bud Shank and Phil Woods on Bouncing with Bud & Phil feels like a ...