Results for "Buddy Rich"

News: TV / Film

Lenny Bruce, Jazz Fan

January 26, 2009

The latest edition of the Jazz Video Guy's blog features highlights from some very rare Lenny Bruce video. In 1959, Mr. Bruce produced his own television pilot, The World of Lenny Bruce, featuring Buddy Rich and Harry Sweets Edison, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, and a quartet that includes his friend Philly Joe Jones, Cannonball Adderley and ...

Album

Live in Miami with Flip Phillips

By Buddy Rich

Label: Giant Step Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Lover, Come Back to Me; Topsy; Undecided; Broadway; Jumpin

Article: Profile

Candido: Fountain of Youth

by AAJ Staff
December 22, 2008

By Bobby Sanabria At the youthful age of 87, NEA Jazz Master Candido Camero has indeed led a full life with no signs of slowing down. While still maintaining a busy schedule of performing and traveling, “The Man of a Thousand Fingers" is still wowing audiences the world over as a shining example of ...

Article: Album Review

Oscar Peterson: Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)

by Samuel Chell
October 27, 2008

How do you criticize pianist Oscar Peterson? The two primary meanings of such a question expose the divide among those who must confront his talent--and, like it or not, no musician or supporter of the music can duck the issues raised by the most prolifically recorded pianist in jazz history. To the one camp, Peterson's playing ...

News: Performance / Tour

Buddy Rich Memorial Concert Rolls out After 10 Years of Marking Time

September 4, 2008

Las Vegas, -- The much awaited return of the Buddy Rich Memorial Concert is now over. In late August, Cathy Rich, daughter of the late, legendary drummer Buddy Rich, confirmed plans for the Buddy Rich Memorial and that it would take place at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on October 18. Her company, Scabeba Entertainment, ...

Article: Album Review

Buddy Rich: Live in Miami with Flip Phillips

by Nic Jones
August 1, 2008

Rich's work was arguably one dimensional and these two live dates, captured for the ages from 1954 and 1957, set out a case in favor of that argument as persuasive as any. Rich, as was his vocation, is all over his drums on everything here, his extrovert nature in harness to a musical sensibility seemingly too ...

Album

The Monster

By Buddy Rich

Label: FiveFour
Released: 2007
Track listing: Sweets Opus No. 1; Strike It Rich; Sportin' Life (AKA Sweetie Pie); The Monster; Sunday; The Yellow Rose Of Brooklyn; Willow Weep For Me; Easy Does It; All Sweets; Nice Work If You Can Get; Barney's Bugle; Now's The Time; You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me.

Album

Man From Planet Jazz

By Buddy Rich

Label: FiveFour
Released: 2007
Track listing: Intro/Beulah Witch; Grand Concourse; Blues A La 88; Saturday Night; Slow Funk; Good News.

Article: Album Review

Buddy Rich: The Monster

by Nic Jones
October 20, 2007

The ambiguity in the title of this one really nails it. Buddy Rich was never a man to let subtlety or restraint get in the way of his ego, and in so doing he reduced the art of jazz drumming to a matter of overbearing machismo and overkill. In short, any beat that Rich played usually ...

Video

Shawnee

Featuring the music of Buddy Rich
Duration: 10:12
September 30, 2007

In this video clip, Buddy Rich first chats with (and gives a brief drum lesson to) television host Michael Parkinson. Then he leads his band through a performance of "Shawnee" before returning for some more conversation with Mr. Parkinson, in which he recounts a confrontation he once had with the young Frank Sinatra.