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Re: Benny Goodman/Buddy Rich

Author: Wisco99
Date: 2015-03-26 12:37

I toured with Buddy Rich in 1976 on a new band playing the 2nd tenor book. Buddy was always putting out 120% when he played, and he expected the rest of us mere mortals to keep up with him. He had the ability to make you play better than you thought you could. When the band was on it was like magic, and he was a happy man.
Buddy had worked with Artie Shaw back when Artie had the top band in the country. Artie just walked out in the middle of a radio broadcast, went to Mexico, and 2 weeks later the band was history. You can tell from the video the admiration that Buddy had for Benny Goodman. Perhaps he was just not the right drummer for Benny, who knows, but Buddy was the best there was. It was like he was from another planet.

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