Mr. Drums: Live on King Street

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Mr. Drums: Buddy Rich & His Band Live on King Street
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Released1985
Recorded3 April 1985, San Francisco One Pass King Street Studios Soundstage
Genre Jazz
Length102:26
Label Cafe (Mobile Fidelity)
Buddy Rich chronology
Rich and Famous
(1983)
Mr. Drums: Buddy Rich & His Band Live on King Street
(1985)
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Mr. Drums: Buddy Rich and His Band Live on King Street, The Channel One Set
Video by
Buddy Rich
Recorded3 April 1985
Genre Jazz
Label Pioneer Artists, Sony
Buddy Rich and His Band: The Lost West Side Story Tapes
Video by
Buddy Rich
Recorded3 April 1985
Genre Jazz
Label Hudson Music, Lightyear

Mr. Drums: Live on King Street is a 1985 recording made by jazz drummer Buddy Rich and his Big Band. It is the final album released during Rich's lifetime.

Contents

Release history

A 3 LP and 2 CD audio album was initially released by Cafe Records (a division of Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab), and a video of the "Channel One" set was released by Pioneer Video (LaserDisc) and Sony (videocassette). The Channel One set was eventually re-issued on DVD as were the remaining tracks (the West Side Story set aka "The Lost Tapes").

Track listing

3 LP release

Disc 1, side A:

  1. "Machine" (Reddie) – 3:14
  2. "Best Coast" (LaBarbera) – 3:57
  3. "One O'Clock Jump" (Basie) – 7:49
  4. "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington, Mills) – 5:17

Disc 1, side B:

  1. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" (Lennon, McCartney) – 3:15
  2. "Love for Sale" (Porter) – 4:05
  3. "No Exit" (Cunliffe) – 6:44

Disc 2, side A:

  1. "Mexicali Nose" (Betts) – 2:58
  2. "Willowcrest" (Bob Florence) – 4:21
  3. "'Round Midnight" (Hanighen, Monk, Williams) – 5:34
  4. "Cotton Tail" – (Ellington) – 4:59

Disc 2, side B:

  1. "New Blues" (Piestrup) – 7:28
  2. "Tee Bag" (Mainieri) – 6:10
  3. "The Red Snapper" (Shew) – 4:50

Disc 3, side A:

  1. "Channel One Suite" (Reddie) – 16:14

Disc 3, side B:

  1. "West Side Story" (Overture and Medley) (Bernstein, Sondheim) – 15:31

2 CD release

Disc 1 (The "Channel One Suite" set)

  1. "Machine" (Reddie) – 3:14
  2. "Best Coast" (LaBarbera) – 3:57
  3. "One O' Clock Jump" (Basie) – 7:49
  4. "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington, Mills) – 5:17
  5. "Norwegian Wood" (Lennon, McCartney) – 3:15
  6. "Love For Sale" (Porter) – 4:05
  7. "No Exit" (Cunliffe) – 6:44
  8. "Channel One Suite" (Reddie) – 16:14

Disc 2 (The "West Side Story" set)

  1. "Mexicali Nose" (Betts) – 2:58
  2. "Willowcrest" (Florence) – 4:21
  3. "'Round Midnight" (Hanighen, Monk, Williams) – 5:34
  4. "Cotton Tail" – (Ellington) – 4:59
  5. "New Blues" (Piestrup) – 7:28
  6. "Tee Bag" (Mainieri) – 6:10
  7. "The Red Snapper" (Shew) – 4:50
  8. "West Side Story" (Overture and Medley) (Bernstein, Sondheim) – 15:31

Video releases

(musical number contents same as Disc 1 of the CD release)
(musical number contents same as Disc 2 of the CD release)

Personnel

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References

  1. Yanow, Scott. Mr. Drums: Live on King Street, San Francisco > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 24 October 2011.