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Article: Album Review

Buddy Tate: The Texas Tenor

Read "The Texas Tenor" reviewed by Chris Mosey


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 ...

Album

Sound Design 6

Label: Bizarre Planet Entertainment
Released: 2013

News: Video / DVD

Even More Big Tenors

Even More Big Tenors

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 ...

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Article: Catching Up With

Alisha Pattillo: Houston by Way of Singapore

Read "Alisha Pattillo: Houston by Way of Singapore" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


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 ...

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She Got It !

Featuring the music of Buddy Tate
Duration: 7:17

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News: Recording

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

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

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 ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Toshiko Akiyoshi: The Music Keeps Her Young

Read "Toshiko Akiyoshi: The Music Keeps Her Young" reviewed by Jack Bowers


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 ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Lionel Hampton Centennial

Read "Lionel Hampton Centennial" reviewed by Laurel Gross


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

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Article: Roads Less Travelled

Buddy Tate From Texas State

Read "Buddy Tate From Texas State" reviewed by Nic Jones


By the end of the 1930s both the Count Basie and Duke Ellington bands had established signature styles of music making that were in some respects antithetical. Whilst the latter was dependent on composition as an integral part of its musical output -and arguably no-one before or since has married composition and the making of jazz ...

Album

Tate Live

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Released: 2003
Track listing: Tangerine; Shiny Stockings; Sweet Georgia Brown; Summertime; Jumpin


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