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Interview: Buddy Collette (Part 2)
Like many aspiring musicians in Los Angeles in the 1930s, Buddy Collette picked up the clarinet and never looked back. During the Depression and into the 1940s, music was the only way out of the city's dense-packed black neighborhoods. But in the very late 1940s, with the rapid rise of television and expansion of the movie ...
Interview: Buddy Collette (Part 1)
Buddy Collette is famous for a bunch of things: The reed and woodwind player helped develop West Coast chamber jazz in the mid-1950s. He was one of first black musicians to work steadily in the Los Angeles studios and the first to perform on television. Buddy recorded playing upward of 10 instruments and appeared on more ...
Buddy Collette: The Polyhedric Buddy Collette
by AAJ Italy Staff
Esce finalmente in compact forse il più bel disco inciso da Buddy Collette nel suo soggiorno italiano del marzo 1961. Il sassofonista e flautista californiano era stato invitato al 6° Festival Internazionale del Jazz di Sanremo e fu tanto attratto dall'atmosfera del nostro Paese che rimase per circa tre settimane. Ebbe un ingaggio in un locale ...
Deck the Halls with Big Band Carols
by Jack Bowers
With the holiday season on track and hastening toward us like a runaway locomotive, it's time once again to hunker down and prepare for the annual onslaught of “Rudolph," “Frosty the Snowman," “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," “Sleigh Ride," “Silver Bells," chestnuts roasting on an open fire and everyone's perennial favorite, “White Christmas." Not to ...
Chico Hamilton: Now and Then
by Joel Roberts
Chico Hamilton Twelve Tones of Love Joyous Shout 2009 The Original Chico Hamilton Quintet Complete Studio Recordings Fresh Sound 2009 It would be a huge understatement simply to say that ...
Chico Hamilton: Joyous Shout
by Donald Elfman
When Chico Hamilton was a boy growing up in Los Angeles, the film studios used to send trucks out to pick up the little African-American children to play natives in their Tarzan movies. “It was work, after all, and we got paid for it," says the drummer, now 87 years of age. “And what you learned ...
L.A. Jazz Scene 2008: Alive and Swingin'
by Chuck Koton
The Los Angeles scene has often been referred to in patronizing terms by jazz lovers, musicians and writers. It has been said that the city's laid-back vibe deprives musicians of the energy that a New York audience can impart to the bandstand. Others complain that the growth of a hip jazz scene has been impeded by ...
Live at El Camino College
Label: UFO Bass
Released: 2006
Track listing: Jazz By The Bay; Blues in Torrance; Magali; Crystal; Andre; Emaline; Sophisticated Lady; In a Sentimental Mood; Take The "A" Train; Satin Doll; Theme From Harlem Nights; A Night at El Camino; C-Jam Blues.
The Buddy Collette Big Band: Live at El Camino College
by Edward Blanco
On May 19, 1990, Buddy Collette assembled a twenty-piece big band for a one-night special performance at El Camino College in Torrance, California. Although it has taken over fifteen years to grace the airwaves for all to enjoy, it is well worth the wait. Though the master tapes were lost, producer David Keller fortunately kept a ...
