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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Subtle Is as Subtle Does

by Patrick Burnette
August 20, 2020

Ya want big bands? We got big bands. Sometimes we got one in each speaker. In this exploration of the more extroverted side of jazz, the boys check out works by a blazing trumpet player (and world-class womanizer), a so-so clarinetist with a heart of gold, two piano-playing band leaders who both worship Duke Ellington, and ...

Article: Talking 2 Musicians

Jazz Musicians Up Against A Virus

by Rob Rosenblum
June 17, 2020

In the last year or so Good Times became the first jazz club in years to operate in Savannah, Forte Jazz Lounge sprouted up in Charleston and Middle C arrived in Charlotte. The Charleston Jazz Orchestra became a hub renamed to Charleston Jazz, providing both big band and small group concerts with unprecedented success. And, of ...

Article: Interview

Chuck Granata: On Sinatra, The Beach Boys, and Johnny Mandel

by Nicholas F. Mondello
May 22, 2020

Chuck Granata is a record and radio producer, author, music historian and archivist. He has written four books on music and sound recording: Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording (Chicago Review Press, A Capella Books, 1999), Wouldn't it be Nice: Brian Wilson and the Making of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (Chicago ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Give the Drummer (More Than) Some! Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 5, 2020

Second part of this drummer-special [for the first part click here], focusing on power drummers and showing the continuity that connects Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa to Joey Baron and Jim Black, and a special focus on the live performative energy of Kresten Osgood and Makaya McCraven as well as the spiritual jazz of Tommaso Cappellato's ...

Article: Album Review

Bobby Shew / Bill Mays: Telepathy

Read "Telepathy" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
May 2, 2020

Trumpet and piano duo albums are relatively rare. Louis Armstrong and Earl Fatha" Hines' “Weather Bird" (1928) was a groundbreaker, although a single. Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie (Pablo, 1974) and Clark Terry's One on One (Chesky Records, 1999), where CT played with fourteen different jazz pianists, come to mind. Telepathy, a horn-piano collaboration featuring trumpeter ...

Article: SoCal Jazz

Jimmy Haslip: Amperes Beyond the BASSics, Part 2

by Jim Worsley
February 24, 2020

In case you missed it, Part One of my conversation with Jimmy Haslip covered a lot of ground and had a few good laughs along the way. Although we talked about the Yellowjackets, we delved more deeply into why and how he parted ways with the band some eight years ago. Haslip has been producing records ...

About Buddy Rich

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Musician

Buddy Rich

Born: September 30, 1917

Arguably the greatest jazz drummer of all time, the legendary Buddy Rich exhibited his love for music through the dedication of his life to the art. His was a career that spanned seven decades, beginning when Rich was 18 months old and continuing until his death in 1987. Immensely gifted, Rich could play with remarkable speed and dexterity despite the fact that he never received a formal lesson and refused to practice outside of his performances. Born Bernard Rich to vaudevillians Robert and Bess Rich on September 30, 1917, the famed drummer was introduced to audiences at a very young age. By 1921, he was a seasoned solo performer with his vaudeville act, "Traps the Drum Wonder." With his natural sense of rhythm, Rich performed regularly on Broadway at the age of four

Album

Just In Time: The Final Recording

By Buddy Rich

Label: Gearbox Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Wind Machine; Night Blood; Ready Mix; The Trolley Song; Winding Way; Harco Shuffle; Just In Time; Loose; Love For Sale; Shawnee; Up Jumped Spring; Why Bother; Porgy And Bess; Twisted.

News: Recording

Buddy Rich: Final Recording

December 10, 2019

In 1983, I saw Buddy Rich and his big band at a long-gone New York club called Wednesday's on East 86th Street. I recall a mid-week gig and that the place was a disco on the weekends. The only table available was the one directly in front of Rich's bass drum. We took it. People had ...

Article: Album Review

Buddy Rich: Just In Time: The Final Recording

Read "Just In Time: The Final Recording" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
November 28, 2019

There are few sounds in jazz as thrilling as a big band in full flight. And a big band led by Buddy Rich promises to send the listener's dials into the red. The live album Just In Time: The Final Recording delivers on the promise. When London club owner Ronnie Scott introduces Rich, he dispenses with ...