Although he found working with world-famous drummer
Buddy Rich the most enlightening, he drew encouragement from everyone.
He has been a household name in the jazz world since the 1960s, when he emerged as the lead player with the big bands of Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman and
Buddy Rich, among others.
Rebecca Parris has sung all over the world with some of jazz's greatest legends like Dizzie Gillespie,
Buddy Rich and Woody Herman.
We increased from the original 40 to 140 shows in its second year when 1986 featured Champion Jack Dupree, Art Blakey and
Buddy Rich enjoying coffee together in a Birmingham cafe.
Join Cardiff's Capital City Jazz Orchestra featuring some of the finest jazz musicians in South Wales as they swing the night away with an evening of big band classics and contemporary tunes including greats from Duke Ellington and Count Basie through to
Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson, Bob Mintzer and Gordon Goodwin.
The Huddersfield band's programme will feature Kenton Collage, a tribute to the musical talents of Stan Kenton, a
Buddy Rich arrangement of Love For Sale plus a clutch of vocals from third-year student Michael Paver who will be singing Mack The Knife and Mr Bojangles.
He worked with such jazz legends as
Buddy Rich, Mel Torme, Gordon Jenkins and, at a time when most white bandleaders refused to hire blacks, Billie Holiday, whom he hired to sing with the band on tour.
Shew, who is serving as CSUN's jazz trumpet teacher this year, was lead trumpet with the Louie Belson band, and also played with the Woody Herman and
Buddy Rich bands.
The programme for both concerts features music of the great big bands like
Buddy Rich, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Stan Kenton and from the repertoire of Ted Heath.
By the 1980s, Santa Clara's provincial equivalent had become the island's top big band as a result of the strict dedication of its members, whose repertoire ranged from "West Side Story" to certain tunes authored by
Buddy Rich, thus facilitating my own migration flora the theoretical to the practical world.
He began his professional career with a two-year tenure on the
Buddy Rich Band before moving to New York City.
BORN HANS Christian Andersen, writer, 1805 ALEC Guinness, film actor, 1914, above EMMYLOU Harris, US singer, 1947 DIED
BUDDY Rich, US jazz drummer, 1987, above CS Forester, British author, 1966 GEORGES Pompidou, French PM, 1974