The Roar of '74

Last updated
The Roar of '74
BuddyRich TheRoarOf74.jpg
Studio album by
Buddy Rich
Released1974
RecordedOctober 6 & 13, 1973
Studio Bell Sound, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length40:37
Label Groove Merchant
Producer Sonny Lester
Buddy Rich chronology
Stick It
(1972)		The Roar of '74
(1974)		 Very Live at Buddy's Place
(1974)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
DownBeat Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]

The Roar of '74 is a studio album by Buddy Rich, with his big band, released on the Groove Merchant Records label in the United States. The album was released in the UK in 1974 on the Mooncrest label by B & C Records. [3]

Contents

Reception

DownBeat assigned the release 4.5 stars. [2] Reviewer James Schaffer noted that Rich takes no solos on any of the tracks. [2] "Hearing Buddy play as only the drummer in a big band is something, especially when it’s his band. The sound is one of a total concept of no real “stars," just a very tight, hard-driving band". [2]

Track listing

LP side A

  1. "Nutville" (Horace Silver) – 4:47
  2. "Kilimanjaro Cookout" (Manny Albam) – 6:14
  3. "Big Mac" (Ernie Wilkins) – 5:54
  4. "Backwoods Sideman" (John La Barbera) – 4:29

LP side B

  1. "Time Check" (Don Menza) – 3:45
  2. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Mack Gordon, Irving Mills) – 3:32
  3. "Waltz of the Mushroom Hunters" (Greg Hopkins) – 7:16
  4. "Senator Sam" (Wilkins) – 4:40

Personnel

The Buddy Rich big band

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. 1 2 3 4 Schaffer, James P. (March 28, 1974). "Reviews. Buddy Rich. THE ROAR OF '74". DownBeat . 41 (6): 24.
  3. ↑ The Roar of '74 at AllMusic
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.