Saw Buddy just a few nights earlier at a place called Blighty's in Farnworh near Bolton I believe ...I was just sixteen and also hooked on BUDDY RICH ...He was AMAZING and all the great bands he had
So many good charts here!! Of course it's all opinion. Backwoods Sideman, Prelude to a Kiss, Here's that Rainy Day, etc. Good stuff! Buddy really had a great sense of humor. It really is a great show.
Alan, did you get lucky enough to be captured on the camera? Such a wonderful and intimate setting. This is about my all time favorite for that reason!
Wow!! For me it is just one big challenge!! The musicians challenge each other to play better, the music challenges the musicians to play better and Buddy is on the drums much saying oh yeah take some of this, take some of that and so on and so on and so on!! Where do you see this now? Where can you go and hear this level of playing now? Constantly just great great shows, great music, great charts and the musicians have to stay as strong as buddy is!! All I can say is thankfully we can all look back and revisit all the performances that buddy and the band did all over the world. I don't think we'll ever get to experience anything like this ever again.
5:16 Hah! For those who don't know, Greg Hopkins, the trumpet player featured on his arrangement of Here's That Rainy Day (6:40) also arranged Buddy's famous version of Nutville, also featured on the Roar of '74 like so many of the other charts featured in this concert. Funny to see this bit where the arranger himself of that piece jokingly suggests it only to get shot down by Buddy, though it is a shame we didn't get to see Nutville in this concert. On the other hand, it gives us a chance to see Hopkins, only 26 or 27 years old here (as of me writing this comment I'm the same age as he is here, dang!), show off such a rare but lovely arrangement and give an even more lovely performance on it.
An incredible version of one of Buddy's many different bands over the years. Probably one of the few times the band was geared out in jackets and ties. The Dorchester Hotel had this rule for everyone entering the hotel-no exceptions. Probably still goes to this day.
Haven't watched this one in a while and forgotten just how good this concert was and as you say the audio was and is great on this version. Great to have a live recording of rainy day with the absolutely beautiful playing and arrangement by Greg Hopkins. and then to go into something totally the opposite with Backwoods Sideman with buddy pushing the band like that, Awesome. It takes me back to the first time i ever saw the band live that same year in Ronnie's.Thank's for the great upload cloudview787
For a change Buddy employed a guitarist in this band .You can hear him soloing on the play out blues at the end His name is Jimmy Bruno and a very well rated guitarist he is too.
YEP i SORT OF KNEW JIMMY BUT I REALLY KNEW ONE OF HIS STAR STUDENTS WHO WAS ALSO A BUDDY RICH GIT PLAYER BACK IN 69 I WORKED W HIM FOR 3 ODD YEARS HE RECENTLY PASSED DUE TO STROKE BUT YEAH DAVE DANA WAS A BIOTCH NO ONE COULD TOUCH HIM BRUNO REALLY TAUGHT HIM WELL NOT TO MENTION HIS OWN DEDICATION TO THE ART..I MISS ALL OF THAT SEEMS I HAVE NO ONE THAT CAN REALLY CHALLENGE ME LIKE THOSE CATS DID SO IT GOT BORING SADLY I LEFT THE BIZ A FEW YEARS BACK BECAUSE WELL, MUSIC DIED..FOR REAL I DON'T THINK I NEED TO POINT OUT SUCH OBVIOUSNESS..THANKS FOR REMINDING ME OF JIMMY AND OF COURSE MY DEAR FRIEND DAVE DANA I HALF KNEW BUDDY AS WELL HE CALLED ME "KID" I WAS YOUNG AND ABSOLUTELY IN LOVE W THAT MAN..MUSICALLY AND PERSONALLY ONCE HE KNEW YOU WERE REAL HE TREATED YOU LIKE GOLD..HE REALLY WAS A PRINCE DONT LISTEN TO THAT NEG PRESS THERE WAS A SOLID REASON HE ACTED THAT WAY..BUT THIS ISNT THE TIME OR PLACE TO GET INTO IT..
Yeah, I hear you! lol that was just Buddy's generation and all his fellow show biz guys from that era like Don Rickles, ect. I'm sure the guys in his band knew not to take any of that personally...nobody could get away with that now (it's just a different time it was actually more accepted back then), but sometimes I think he went a little overboard and some of it is painful to watch...poor Bob Crea. Btw, Bob's sax playing was phenomenal here and his duet with Pat Lababarbra was awesome! This lineup was my favorite with Charlie on lead trumpet! I watched a recent interview of him and he is still at it and looked great.
1. Prelude To a Kiss ( Ellington) Arr. Greg Hopkins. Joe Romano- lead alto sax. 2. Here's That Rainy Day ( J Van Heusen)Arr. Greg Hopkins. Greg Hopkins- trumpet. 3.Backwoods Sideman( John LaBarbera). Pat LaBarbera, Bob Crea- tenor saxes. 4. Senator Sam ( Ernie Wilkins) Jimmy Bruno- guitar.
Thank you so much for uploading this great quality video I've been looking for of the Dorchester Hotel 1973 with Buddy Rich and his band. I have other copies but none with the quality of this one, 480p. The best I could ever get was 360p and that was the black & white version. I then later found a color version but poor quality. I always said "If I wait long enough, there will be other better version on RU-vid at some point." Sure enough, you came through. Thanks for sharing it. I really loved this particular event especially with Greg Hopkins on the Flugelhorn. That was such a beautiful piece and the audio quality really lets it sink into the soul. The audio on all three videos I have of this are great sounding, btw.
The Roar of 74 is on Groove Merchant records 180 gram vinyl. 3 of the tunes Backwoods, Senator, and Prelude are on side B, Nuttville is another tune it’s on side A there’s a Johnny Carson performance of that one. On the LP it’s Tony Levin on Bass and Joe Beck on guitar.
Buddy Rich, he is Italian American, Bruce Lee, his mother was half German & half Italian, even though Bruce was half Asian, what they have in common, it's their invincability,both #1 at their profession.
Yaakov Yisra'El Sarahson Buddy Rich was 100% Jewish. Born in Sheepsheead Bay, Brooklyn. His parents were Bess (née Skolnik) and Robert Rich, both vaudevillians. Buddy joined the act at the age of 18 months old as "TRAPS THE DRUM WONDER".
5:52 - Hopkins, from the recent appearance on the cross... omg, lol the look on his face, he hates him so much, the rest of the band probably as well. After Buddy era, no wonder why everyone makes fun of the drummers. Payback time :D
Charlie Davis, Larry Hall,Greg Hopkins John Hoffman(The Fig)- trumpets. Joe Romano, Bob Martin - alto saxes: Pat LaBarbera, Bob Crea- tenor saxes. John Laws (Oslawki)- baritone sax. Alan Kaplan, Keith O'Quinn- trombones; John Leyes - bass trombone. Jimmy Bruno- guitar. BUDDY Budson -piano. Ron Paley- bass. Buddy Rich- drums.
Yeah, RU-vid used to have a way to do personal messages, but I can no longer find it either. I have your email now so you can click on the 3 dots to the right of your reply and then go into the text body and delete your email address.
I have little doubt that big band music writers would consider it well written. And Buddy must have liked it, and he had a phenomenal ear. But it's not my thing. When I want to listen to mellow instrumental music, where there's little or no drum set focus, I tend to switch to Classical music for that.
@@cloudview747 Besides Buddy's terrific swingin' big bands, I really enjoyed listening to Stan Kenton's big bands play ballads with thick harmonic scoring like this arrangement. Kenton's could be even "thicker" because of 5 tmpts, 5 'bones (often with one doubling on tuba), and 5 saxes. Buddy got some great sounds out of fewer players, and post-WWII, no big band swung like Buddy's, not Kenton, Basie, Herman, Don Ellis, NO ONE. Thanks for these terrific uploads!
THE LIVE VERSION MUST HAVE BEEN TERRIBLE TO HAVE GONE THRU ALL OF THAT EDITING JUST TO GET IT SYNC TO THE ALBUM VERSION..IF TRUE THATS VERY SAD HOPEFULLY IT WASNT TERRIBLE BUT WELL NOW NEVER KNOW
Okay, buddy has done some weird band placements before, but come on the trombones are all the way in the back! I bet they don't even have mics either. great band but not a good set up
I don't think there is a swing / jazz/ standards vocalist who has not sung or recorded " "Here's that Rainy Day " Of course Francis Albert, the boss ,was the one who popularised it.He infused it with his angst and broken heartedness about Ava Gardner.But it is a beautiful song that is one of the standards of any singers repertoire Male or female,if they have anything about them!
the haircuts or lack of are as interesting as the music . "Something "by the Beatles , written by guitarist George Harrison is butchered by the bombastic arrangement but it is to be expected considering it's played by a style antithetical to Rock Music , plus no vocalist present. the saxophonist second from the left looks like John Lennon and the piano player looks like Harry Reims a popular Porn Star. Buddy Rich's spontaneous jokes are as stellar as his drumming. you can not record a powerful big band like this and get the same sonic sensations as being there. most people who watched the Johnny Carson show must of recognized that Buddy and Johnny loved each others company and both loved humor and drumming . Carson was a good drummer himself but not a pro . remember how Carson would nervously beat a pen like a drum stick against his desk when hosting his show and if Buddy was on and Carson turned and faced the camera Buddy would grab it !
I totally agree. Here he's using his band as a comedy foil but even worse, he had the reputation of being extremely abusive towards his band when off stage. Cursing, shouting, etc. In this show, some audience members are stupidly playing along with his childish comments about his band and Buddy's not astute enough to realize that he's sinking to the dumbest members of the audience. I love his playing but as a person, he sucked. And I hate the way everybody was kissing his ass.
@@larrysmith6797 as a drummer he was one of a kind But you don't embarrass your workers on stage. They play their asses off for very little money, live out of a suitcase, sleep on buses. Even his own daughter used to tell him he was out of line. It goes back to his father. Don't make others wear the black eye for something they didn't do.
He's a great drummer. He should stick to that. Cause as a comedian he sucks big time. Out of control ego. But when the music started, he was the consummate pro.
He was a riot, met him once , saw him twice, helped pack his cymbals, and he was gladdened to hear that a young drummer like me was hip to jazz. We talked about Roland Kirk, Gene Krupa, Anita O'Day and all the records my old man turned me on to from childhood. I will never say bad things about Buddy Rich, and neither should you.
Splotbang Buddy Rich had a great sense of humor . He came out of vaudeville, starting at the age of 18 mos. in his parents vaudeville act. That's where he learned to tell jokes, tap dance and sing, in addition to being billed as "TRAPS THE DRUM WONDER". How 'bout yourself ? Who writes your comedy, the Grim Reaper? His ego wasn't nearly as out of control as yours sounds like it is. Some of the funniest jokes are very intentionally the corniest. If it works, it works. Johnny Carson loved Buddy's banter. Maybe buy a sense of humor. You can pick one up dirt cheap from any street vendor in NYC, because most people already have one, and those who don't, are too unfunny to know it.
Great show, horrible camera work. Showed more of the audience than the trombone players, backs of trumpets heads. Camera on the sax players was as if they were singers, never showed hands etc. Annoying.
