Buddy Rich and the Buddy Rich Big Band live at the 1982 Montreal Jazz Festival features Buddy and his band at the height of their popularity and influence Featured are seven arrangements that display ...

Nobody's really clamoring for big band recordings from 1980 these days, and it's probably the case that no one was back then, either. But it's also true that drummer Buddy Rich never really gave a ...

Lightyear Entertainment and Lobitos Creek Ranch, in association with Scabeba Entertainment and the Buddy Rich Estate, have announced the release of a special limited-edition version of the ...

A few weeks after Buddy Rich died in April 1987, I was speaking to another great drummer, Art Blakey (who would himself be gone only three years later), on an unrelated matter. I don’t remember why I ...

When a friend whose opinion I respect said Wham! contains the finest live performances by the Buddy Rich Big Band he’s ever heard, I had no choice but to acquire a copy and listen for myself. The good ...