Buddy Rich Just Sings

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Buddy Rich Just Sings
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Studio album by Buddy Rich
Released 1957
Recorded 1957
Genre Vocal jazz
Length38:52
Label Verve
Producer Norman Granz
Buddy Rich chronology
This One's for Basie
(1956)		Buddy Rich Just Sings
(1957)		 Buddy Rich in Miami
(1958)
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Buddy Rich Just Sings is a 1957 studio album by Buddy Rich, one of three vocal albums that Rich recorded. [2] The album has also been re-issued on CD with the contents of The Voice is Rich added as 'bonus' material.

Buddy Rich Jazz drummer and bandleader

Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time and was known for his virtuoso technique, power, and speed. He performed with Tommy Dorsey, Harry James and Count Basie, and led a big band.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Cathy" (Mel Tormé) – 3:24
  2. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 4:09
  3. "It's All Right with Me" (Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 2:32
  4. "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen, Harburg) – 4:19
  5. "You Took Advantage of Me" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:43
  6. "Can't We Be Friends?" (Paul James, Kay Swift) – 3:29
  7. "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Arlen, Harburg) – 2:52
  8. "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton) – 3:03
  9. "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 5:01
  10. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:05
  11. "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" (Ray Noble) – 3:39

Personnel

Ben Webster American saxophonist

Benjamin Francis Webster was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He is considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Known affectionately as "The Brute" or "Frog", he had a tough, raspy, and brutal tone on stomps, yet on ballads he played with warmth and sentiment. He was indebted to alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges, who, he said, taught him to play his instrument.

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Buddy Rich Just Sings at AllMusic
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