Tracks: Mexicali Nose Willowcrest 'Round Midnight Cotton Tail New Blues Tee Bag The Red Snapper West Side Story (Overture and Medley). Personnel: Buddy Rich: drums, leader Steve Marcus: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone Mark Pinto, Bob Bowlby: alto saxophone Brian Sjoerdinga: tenor saxophone, flute Jay Craig: baritone saxophone Scott Bliege, Mike Davis: trombone James Martin: bass trombone Paul Phillips, Eric Miyashiro, Michael Lewis, Joe Kaminski: trumpet Bill Cunliffe: piano Dave Carpenter: electric bass. There are also solo highlights, one of which could be used as exhibit A for the "greatest drummer legal team. These two show how unhesitant, straight ahead blowing, calculated for maximum wows, ought to be done.Īmong the DVD's extras are commentary from the man himself, members of his family and others, including drummer Dave Weckl. The band is probably filled with first rate jazz soloists, but the lion's share of solo time goes to the lions: Rich and his right hand man, tenorist Steve Marcus. This release follows the Emmy Award winning Channel One Suite and both concerts were recorded the same night. The producers recovered the masters from a fire in 1990 and went about restoring the original surround sound track of the last concert Buddy Rich recorded before he passed away in 1987. Once the tunes are launched, he never flags and his bombastic, propulsive abilities are in fine fettle. Buddy Rich The Lost Tapes is an historic preservation and restoration project. Later he seems to have gotten a second wind and is seen in close-up doing a silly dance on his stool. This was the second set and Rich sometimes looks just slightly winded in the short breaks between the first tunes. Rich and band start with a bang, cranking through two up-tempo numbers, then delivering a less than sedate handling of "'Round Midnight. The film is taken from a single set at a single gig in 1985, late in Rich's career, when he was touring but not recording. If you're looking for a visual document of this locomotive of a drummer in his late prime, The Lost Tapes should do you nicely. Buddy Rich was a steamroller and is reputed to have rolled over more than a couple of his bandmembers, but that's neither here nor there.
That's true maybe, if what you value most is the ability to flatten things.
It's like saying the steamroller is the greatest wheeled vehicle of all time. This is much like granting Sinatra King of Crooners status - for many this brash supremism is based on a standard of style and sensibility we don't find so pretty. He's commonly referred to as the best drummer ever. The hyperbole about Buddy Rich can get pretty deep.
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