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Buddy Fite
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Buddy Fite’s guitar style is completely unique in that once you hear him, you can always pick him out. His combination of walking bass line, rhythm and lead at the same time is almost unbelievable.
An interesting note is Buddy’s approach to the guitar fingerboard. He approaches it as a keyboard player would, in that he doesn’t think in terms of fret position. In fact, some of his favorite influences are Art Tatum and Errol Garner.
At 22, Buddy returned to Portland and played called the Cotton Club. There he met Omar Yeoman who played with the Ink Spots. He recommended Buddy to Billy Ward and the Dominoes, Buddy went to Chicago for an audition and got the job. The other band members were Shelly Manne and Ray Brown.
Backgrounder: Buddy Fite - Tasty (1975)
Unless you lived in western Oregon in the late 1960s and '70s or the 1990s, you probably have no idea who Buddy Fite was. I bumped into his jazz guitar playing by accident last week on YouTube and was astonished. So I did a little research in old newspapers. Born in Vancouver, Wash., in 1938, Ronald ...
Tasty
By Buddy Fite
Label: Pinnacle Records
Released: 1987
Track listing: Princess;
Here's That Rainy Day;
Make It With Me;
I Can't Get Started With You;
Tune up;
Barneys Tune;
Sneakin' One;
Angel Eyes;
Willow Weep For Me;
No Particular Blues;
Moonlight In Vermont;
A Day in the Life of a Fool.
