In Buddy Rich’s lifetime ... But by the time of his centennial in 2017, the Rich recording that most people knew, much more so than any of his actual music, was the infamous “bus tapes ...

As the band cooked through song after song, I was thunderstruck by the power and swing. Listening to Buddy Rich: Just in Time, the Final Recording (Gearbox) reminded me of that night. Newly released ...

Buddy Rich was one of jazz‘s most iconic drummers ... We‘ll hear those Rich bands on this edition of Night Lights, as well as recordings that the drummer made with Artie Shaw and Tommy ...

"For me the real innovation in his playing came much later and his big band recordings from 1966 onwards owe relatively little to the swing era Buddy Rich; the approach is fresh, modern, and very much ...

He said Buddy Rich was, ‘the greatest drummer ever to have drawn breath ... For the novice, Buddy’s percussive universe might best be introduced by a “modern” direct-to-disc recording, Together Again ...

In 1956, jazz drummers Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich released Krupa and Rich ... Like the Grateful Dead before them, the Allmans’ live recordings became definitive parts of the jam band canon.

He has listened to Rich's recordings avidly ... were all quite dynamic from the drumming point of view. But here was Buddy, playing West Side Story, which we'll be playing on the tribute concerts ...

And a big band led by Buddy Rich promises to send the listener's dials into the red. The live album Just In Time: The Final Recording delivers on the promise. When London club owner Ronnie Scott ...