Blues Caravan

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Blues Caravan
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1962
RecordedAugust 14–16, 1961
Genre Jazz
Length48:39
Label Verve
Producer Creed Taylor
Buddy Rich chronology
Playtime
(1961)
Blues Caravan
(1962)
Burnin' Beat
(1962)
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Blues Caravan is a 1962 studio album by Buddy Rich and a sextet. Rich later took this sextet on a United States Department of State tour of the Far East and Asia. [3]

Contents

Track listing

LP side A

  1. "Blowin' the Blues Away" (Horace Silver) – 8:40
  2. "B.R. Blues" (Buddy Rich) – 3:14
  3. "Late Date" (Maynard) – 5:12

LP side B

  1. "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) – 9:44
  2. "Young Blood" (Mike Mainieri) – 5:59
  3. "I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson) – 3:35

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. Dryden, Ken (2011). "Blues Caravan - Buddy Rich | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1210. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. Blues Caravan at AllMusic