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Buddy Tate: The Texas Tenor

Read "The Texas Tenor" reviewed by Chris Mosey

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 ...

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