Results for "Buddy Tate"

John Coltrane and the Meaning of Life

by Douglas Groothuis
January 22, 2015

Few jazz musicians inspire more respect or demand more attention than John Coltrane. Elvin Jones, Coltrane's drummer in “The Classic Quartet" (1961-65), said that most people who listen seriously to John Coltrane's music eventually acquire all of his recordings. I find that those who hear Coltrane for who he was want to hear all that he ...

The Texas Tenor

By Buddy Tate

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: CD1: Stompin’ At The Savoy; Body And Soul; Buddy’s Blues; Broadway; Just You, Just Me; In A Mellotone; I Surrender Dear. CD2: Jive At Five; There Goes My Heart; Somebody Loves Me; Sweethearts On Parade; I Got A Right To Sing The Blues; Constantly; I Never Knew; Somebody Loves Me (alt take); Jive At Five (alt take).

Buddy Tate: The Texas Tenor

by Chris Mosey
May 16, 2014

When Herschel Evans died in 1939, Buddy Tate took his place in the Count Basie band. Basie used Tate's muscular, blues- based tenor as a foil to the lighter toned playing of Lester Young. Tate played with Basie for the next nine years fulfilling the same role with Young's successors, Don Byas, Illinois Jacquet, Lucky Thompson ...

Sound Design 6

By Buddy Tate

Label: Bizarre Planet Entertainment
Released: 2013

Even More Big Tenors

December 5, 2013

Since I'm now tenor crazy after featuring great saxophonists all week, I went in search of video featuring even mightier reed players. How about Dexter Gordon, Budd Johnson, Buddy Tate, Illinois Jacquet and Arnett Cobb on the same stage engaging in a tenor battle?  Here's the clip. Jacquet is in the cream suit, Tate is in ...

Alisha Pattillo: Houston by Way of Singapore

by C. Michael Bailey
May 22, 2013

Reed multi-instrumentalist Alisha Pattillo has a ubiquitous presence in Houston Texas, appearing with her own groups, which take on a variety of formats: Alisha's Quartet, Alisha's Quartet + 1 and Alisha's Quartet - 1. She is also the reed player for the Ezra Charles Band and Steve Krase & The in Crowd. Pattillo ...

She Got It !

Featuring the music of Buddy Tate
Duration: 7:17
February 22, 2013

Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1

September 16, 2011

The explosive transformation of Miles Davis' “second great Quintet" with Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Tony Williams (drums) is laid bare on Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Volume 1. Culled from original state-owned television and radio sources in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, and Sweden, the ...

Toshiko Akiyoshi: The Music Keeps Her Young

by Jack Bowers
August 2, 2010

Pianist Billy Taylor, now in his eighty-ninth year, once recorded an album titled Music Keeps Us Young. I'm a firm believer in that and could point to several notable examples, one of whom is composer / pianist / bandleader Toshiko Akiyoshi who was in Albuquerque and Santa Fe last month with husband Lew Tabackin to headline ...

Lionel Hampton Centennial

by Laurel Gross
December 12, 2009

Lionel HamptonCentennial CelebrationPablo/Telarc - Concord2009 Lionel Hampton Big BandThe European Concerts, 1953-1954Fremeaux & Associes2009 Lionel HamptonMostly BluesNimbus Records2009 Straight out of ...