An excellent documentary about Buddy Rich and his musical career. There are some really awesome performances in this video that I have not seen elsewhere, and totally worth the watch and listen!
I was fortunate enough to see Buddy and his big band as an eighteen year old 1973 at the Top of the Plaza restaurant in Rochester,N.Y. What an experience. His power and presence behind his Slingerlands was mesmerizing. When his solos would conclude, the audience would explode. Although my personal favorite is Gene Krupa, Buddy was like an atomic explosion. Just an incredible talent.
@@sandy3482 That’s great. The TOP was a really cool venue. Classy atmosphere,the food was great, a view of the city,and some really great musicians performed there. I’ll never forget that night,Buddy was unbelievable,and his band was rolling.
If I had a dollar for every time my jaw dropped while watching this video, I'd be a billionaire. The performance clip of Rich with the trumpet player, pianist, and bassist, (introduced by Lenny Bruce) is a classic example of why we drummers hail him as the best drummer who ever lived, even all these years after his death. I mean that's just beyond drumming.
The ultimate musician. Fantastic technique, wrists, power, timing and above all else the ability to make music on a very high level. The clip with Buddy playing on the Lenny Bruce show in a 4 piece band is A TESTIMONY to his amazing talent. Dizzie Gillespie who had many sessions with Buddy put it out there when he said, to play with Bernard Buddy Rich you only have to give 110 % nothing else!!!! There are some amazing albums (hard to get) that show cases Buddy playing with smaller groups absolutely amazing . R.I.P Master we can never forget you.
Gee, my dad used to play drums, this guy must have been his inspiration. My father loved all the jazz big bands n all spectrum of this music. He loved Rat Pack as well. Buddy beats em all in the drumming styles. Ace, ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Dear old Henry Adler around 6:30 - friend of Buddy’s and one of the greatest drum teachers and music impresarios of his generation - Henry was my teacher for about 2 years, so good to see him here.
It seems to me that Mr. Rich's conditioning is unreal , he just goes and goes and his note definition is so staccato and steady, I love watching him play , Thanks for sharing this Crazy 8's Drums and RU-vid !!!!! Thanks BUDDY for being so awesome , I have even grown to like his sorta pissed off attitude !!!!! Will
He undoubtedly had a great talent, but , unlike some of the slobbering comments that usually accompany these videos I do not find him in the least entertaining, tasteless is what comes to mind upon almost every viewing of Mr Rich , frantic and whatever others think , unmusical, sure he had a great left hand coupled with a natural ability to impress , but personally I could never find common ground with the blinkered hero worshipers , I admired his work ethic ie show up on the job whatever the circumstances , apart from that I find little else to admire in his bombastic approach to drumming or his towering ego and his contempt for those who worked with him .21:18
Buddy was a rare human being, he was a genius he could back up what he though of the music industry with his full house concerts and his ability to play and lead a band like no other my hero rip
So glad to see Bunny Berigan's name come up, he was the best trumpet player for his time and made such beautiful music. Such incredible natural talent everywhere in this documentary!
In a class of his own. Everyone who saw Buddy play, was in awe, even today and probably, forever. I couldn't understand why his fascination for Fibes snare drums from 1971 plus, because every brand snare he played , sounded brilliant. All he did, was upset the drum companies, that paid and sponsored him.
Thanks for this video. I never knew him, but I miss him terribly. I really wish that I could've seen Buddy play live. I was much too young then, but at least we have these video archives of him to keep him alive forever...
Thank for sharing this great Documentary; My 1st Encounter with Buddy Rich came from watching "The Muppet Show" with me Daughter in 2014... "Buddy Rich Vs. Animal" is a classic... After that, I took a deep dive into the works of Mr. Rich... Marvelous Drummer, giving me goosebumps still to this Day... Maybe the best Jazz Drummer of all time...
Thank you very much to whoever posted this and those whoever allow it to exist. I enjoyed Buddy's albums; he was my idol. I'd play drum to (Pop) records and radio, but sometimes it'd hit me, I needed more than two hands to accomplish that drum piece. That was my first clue of overdubbing. What I enjoy about Big Bands; they we recorded live. It was the same with early studio music, so many Takes had to be recorded just to get the music and/or singing right - very costly, paying an entire orchestra all day(s). Music became more and more fabricated as tape recorders advanced. People don't care how music is made, as long as it's made. Real drummers were replaced by drum machines, horns were replaced by keyboards. The goal was to make music as cheap as possible. One group I have to applaud is The Knack, the founder wanted to sound as good live as in the studio, keeping any overdubbing to a minimum. Anyway, Buddy, thank you very much for your fine talent and entertainment; and those who were in his band - salute.
The voice-over is by Buddy's friend Melvin Howard Torme (1925-1999). Mel Torme, who was a contemporary, but slightly older than Buddy, was also of Jewish immigrant stock. Mel Torme befriended Buddy when Buddy Rich left the US Marine Corps in 1944. Torme was a jazz singer, arranger, composer, and also a drummer himself.
+mobrules29 Thank you, mr mobrule, for your perceptive timely correction I apologise for my unforced error.... but I did put Mel Torme's correct birth date inside brackets...... I am also aware that Buddy Rich was born in 1917 and died of heart failure in early 1987.
I have played for over 30 years and everytime I watch videos of Buddy play I want to throw my sticks away or go play harder....but that's what a good drummer does to another one, turns on the passion either direction. The only thing about buddy is his poor reputation - even his wife has to use tact but she says it that he was a crusty guy. It doesn't help that he LOOKS like a crusty grumpy guy who rarely smiles
Totally wired, when I was living in my father's house back in the day turn me on to this big band music as I am 58 years old and didn't live in the 40s I thought it was great stuff and he also turn me on to Buddy Rich. I think it's great stuff I really do nothing more to say that's it just had to say my piece🦷🦷🦷
They say RU-vidrs have short attention-spans. Well I just sat at my computer and watched all 1:04:18 of this - and am now off to watch the remaining 1:17:38! I'll let you know what I think, over there...
j aime le jazz armstrong bix stan guest duke ect...al hirt ils ont tous la meme couleur la musique!!!quand j ecoute c est un plaisir je suis toujours etonne des commentaires qui n ont rien a voir avec la musique!la musique adoucit les moeurs!!!
It wasn't 'racist' to wear blackface, it was a revolt against the status quo which at the time was chock full of bigotry. Jazz music was critical in overcoming these social obstacles as the white musos wore blackface to show their disdain for the ludicrous practice of racism. We all need to let this shit go... Live and let live.
Rich my opinion was at his peak physically during the Harry James period. mind dropping attack 52:47 the hands alternate on the tins evenly with blazing speed and dynamic snap. Steve Smith and Jojo Mayer got it down pact but not does not have the intensity Buddy had in his prime.
We can't just quit our passions because of our fears of embarrassment. Buddy Rich played until the day he died....and was always better than the day before. Don't give up, friend!
I really like Gene Krupp’s playing. Of course no one can match Buddy’s speed and technical prowess. However Gene just had a certain non quantitativiable something in his groove that made everything he play feel and sound and swing so good. In my opinion that shows / can be heard in their drum battle. Buddy blazed all over the kit and showcased his phenomenal abilities. Genes solo had a certain musicality and feel to it, where you could distinctly hear and feel the patterning of what he was doing and playing.
Buddy Rich was the Heifetz of the drum set: incomparable. The technical wizardry was unheard of in its time and remains unequalled. Both were ego-driven for sure but set enormously high standards for themselves and for those around them. Musically, neither was very interesting. Sid Catlett, Chick Webb, and Papa Joe Jones were all more "interesting", poetic so to speak. For the violin, Szigeti, Busch, and Milstein were way more musically insightful than Heifetz.
"world's greatest drummer" will always b a subjective opinion no matter who yer talking about. they all have a heart that shows through in their craft, not every1's heart is meant for every1 else.
don't know where the 'racist' stuff came in BUT buddy played with everybody in music & was welcomed & that wouldn't be the case had there been a HINT of racism. AND he played as a featured performer with JATP and there is NO WAY civil rights pioneer & jazz concert/tour/record impresario norman granz would have anything to do with racial inequality in his operation-PERIOD!NO WAY!!
The leftists and SJWs don't understand the history of blackface...they have been presented a false understanding of it. The jazz musicians had a profound effect on ending segregation and the blackface thing was in a way mocking racists...the blackface helped end segregation and racial discrimination.
He is a helluva drummer technique wise and speed and amazing clarity at speed but I can't really listen for long because...I mean how long can you solo on a snare drum before it gets old? I am not a real lover of drum solo's that are a bit self indulgent as most of Buddy's stuff really. Its just goes too long.
If your not a drummer you don't understand. every solo begins with the snare it depends on the rolls. Now buddy rich would do one handed rolls on the snare with his left hand and accent with his feet and right hand. If you ask drummers there top drummers he will always be on their list.. drumming for 21 years now..
You need to listen to some of his albums. Buddy was a really tasty player and if you went to see his band there would only be a couple of big drum solos in his set. He was first and foremost one of the great musicians of the 20th century. He had some of the tastiest brush playing going. Listen to "Brush Strokes". He could dig in and swing all night and support and drive a band small or big. It just so happens there are so many videos and films of his drum solos that it gives people the impression that soloing was all he would do. He was a master musician and superior keeper of time.
47:39 brother, ain’t it the truth, Rome/Babylon falling all over again. Sadly currently the only drummer people of today can name would be Travis Barker.
...and easily half of Buddy's friends were black. Buddy was no bigot, and his parents were not likely to have been particularly bigoted either, having lived the musician life. That is the main thing I have learned in my life of music making... racism is pure ignorance and finds no home in music.
@@blankowvsingt There was no jazz or blues before 1865. Slavery had to end before those music types evolved. The music helped heal the wounds of slavery, as slavery hurts everybody. Don't dishonor these wonderful musicians by re-opening wounds that they had healed. In other words, get over it. Move forward in your life. Don't let dead people control you. You will be a victim for as long as you play a victim and for no longer.
Buddy Rich was very good but I would not call him the best. It was much more pleasant to hear Gene Krupa. He not only was good on drums but also he had melody in his drums while Buddy Rich is just fast and big noise.
My actions and words are to share Love for music and Drums. This is what my channel shows. Your channels shows your actions and words...actions and words that emphasize your hate for whites, women, christians and jews....and you even throw in the the N word a few times for good measure. I am actually blacker than you because I actually have black pigment in my skin whereas you do not....because you aren't black. You are brown...just like everybody else.
I read through your channel too, and the comments you have made elsewhere...and what I found is that you are a black-power wielding hypocrite who doesn't stop with just anti-white diatribe but continue well into woman-hating and religion-bashing. Congrats to you for learning nothing about the power of music to render all people equal. Hypocrites are the worst dude...fix yourself.
Nobody on my channel want to listen to your hate-filled bigoted drivel...so please shut the fuck up and go play your drums... I hope that someday you can shed the hate...and if you keep at the drums and musicmaking you just might.
stupide parceque j aime la musique et que pour moi comme pour beaucoup d autre la couleur n a pas d importance? vous trouvez ca stupide? vous devez faire parti du ku klux klan? vous n aimez pas les indiens non plus? pauvre homme!!!!
So, you just put this thing up with no credits, no acknowledgement of source material, no nothing. This cost many thousands of dollars to produce, and then people like you ignore that fact and make everything available for free. Tell you what: I'm going to find out what you do for a living, and then I'll tell your employer that it's no longer necessary for you to be paid, as I'll do your job for free.
The credits are in the video. Why would this cost thousands to make; it's old films and videos of performances that the musicians already were paid for years and years ago. If I had all the films and videotapes it wouldn't cost me thousands to produce. This is pure raw music, no video special effects. This video is old, too. Anybody who knows about it and wants it, already has it. The person who posted this is making people aware that it exists and maybe they will look somewhere to buy it so they can play it on their flat screen hd tv's without having to have access to the internet. He may be boosting sales. Have you ever taped a song off the radio or made a cassette copy of an album for somebody? Do send somebody a check every time you play cover song with a band? Let's be real.
If you are still out to tell my employer that they no longer need to pay me you shouldbe delighted to find out that I am a self-employed drum maker and drummer...and one who is virtually penniless and starving. Go fuck yourself with your shit attitude and hater greedy nonsense.
You are demanding to make more money off of the corpse of Buddy Rich? I am not making a single cent for sharing this. I do it so that people don't forget the music.
Btw, did you find my boss yet? You are talking at him now as I am my own boss. Not everybody is willing to exist in the slave-world you still live in. If you really have ownership rights to this video then you'll need to file a report to RU-vid and try to get that $0.00 that I have earned for sharing it on my channel. Get bent...
I'm hate filled? But you're justifying Buddy' s father being in Black face. Sorry to disappoint you, but I don't drivel. My point is accurate. As stated, you don't even see your racism. That's because you're wired that way. Don't worry, I'll stay off your simple channel. Therefore, you can continue cheerleading for Buddy. He was great, & you're probably mediocre at best. Lastly, I simply voiced my discontent for Black face & you're cursing me and trying to insult me. Who's filled with hate?
Smh... Buddy's father in Black face. Damn, why do most, if not all, Caucasians always have some racist element in their existence? As a "Black" man, I can't even enjoy a historical documentary of a drummer without being insulted.
Une fois de plus. Arrêter de sauter dans mes conversations. Vous n'avez pas kow ce qui est dit, ni ce que le titre des questions mensonge sont. Je suis un «Noir» américain et j'ai pris offense au père de Buddy Rich étant en «face noire». Vous avez sauté en train de me dire que la musique n'a pas de couleur - quand ce n'était pas la question. S'il vous plaît ne pas bourgeon po
