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Buddy Rich: Keep The Customer Satisfied

Read "Keep The Customer Satisfied" reviewed by John Sharpe


In the late sixties drum virtuoso Buddy Rich recorded a series of albums for Liberty/Pacific Jazz that most critics agree were the best of his career. Keep The Customer Satisfied captures Rich, an admitted showoff, performing live before an enthusiastic audience at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. Of the original seven tracks, only one (the ...

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Art Pepper

Read "Art Pepper" reviewed by Robert Spencer


It's all in his remarkable autobiography, Straight Life. Art Pepper was a junkie. First and foremost. He spent long stretches in prison, had innumerable wild adventures, and used drugs to the end of his life. He spent years devoted entirely to scoring the next dose. But in and through it all, he somehow managed to become ...

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Stick It

Label: RCA Records
Released: 1999

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Buddy Rich: Stick It

Read "Stick It" reviewed by Jack Bowers


There have been many outstanding big bands in the relatively brief history of Jazz as we know it — but only one Buddy Rich. He wasn’t called “Mr. Drums” for nothing. You take any band, I don’t care whose, and place Buddy in the drum chair, and it’ll sound better. Not slightly better, mind you; I’m ...

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Buddy Rich: Stick It

Read "Stick It" reviewed by John Sharpe


One of a kind drum virtuoso Buddy Rich recorded a number of albums for RCA during the 70s. Their quality ranged from the very good (Rich In London), to average (A Different Drummer and Plays And Plays And Plays), to the truly dreadful (Speak No Evil). I would add Stick It, recorded in 1972, to the ...

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Rich and Famous

Label: Meteor Records
Released: 1996

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Charlie Parker With Strings

Label: Verve Records
Released: 1995
Track listing: JuJust Friends; Everything Happens To Me; April In Paris; Summertime; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; If I Should Lose You; You Came Along From Out Of Nowhere; East Of The Sun; They Can't Take That Away From Me; Easy To Love; I'm In The Mood For Love; I'll Remember April.

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Lionel Hampton Presents Buddy Rich

Label: Bizarre Planet Entertainment
Released: 1994

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Jazz Classics

Label: Denon
Released: 1993

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Two Big Bands Play Selections From West Side Story

Label: Bizarre Planet Entertainment
Released: 1991


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