Buddy Rich "Ok With Jay"

[jazzjanne1]

I heard the band here in Stockholm, but it was at Skeppsholmen. Awesome!

[kylegeee]

Holy shit that trombone player sings it! 

[mrjohnstgeorge]

No better sound. No better drummer. No better music. Notice the 'smile' on his face. That's a pro all the way around. One time I saw him lose a stick. He didn't try to grab it because you can't. He just let it go, and grabbed another one out of the bag. He made it look like he wanted to get rid of it. He was the master, even on how to lose a stick!

[cadillacdude1975]

@mrjohnstgeorge that video is in my massive Buddy Rich playlist. the song was "In a Mellow Tone" i have a couple of different ones in there, but he breaks a stick, grabs another, goes to hit his first floor tom, realizes that his towel that is sitting on the second tom is covering the head of the first, so he drops the stick he just picked up, tossed the towel in the floor and picked up yet another stick and never missed a stroke of the rhythm. and that all happened in about 3 seconds.

[cadillacdude1975]

@cadillacdude1975

the video is at /watch?v=jY4yDF2Q824

the unintended "stick trick" starts at five min 29 seconds. check it out. it was a great cover up.

[RJones306]

Buddy looks happy in this one haha, unusual!

[macroman2008]

Smokin' hot band!

RIP Buddy

[selector111]

tom Garling before maynard's band

[8126926]

That is a great trombone solo.

[mickysax1]

Last time I saw Jay Craig was in 1981 when he gave me a lift in his old beat up old Datsun going from a place called Dundee in Scotland. He'd just left the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and was obviously a shit hot player. but to think he had the Bari chair with Buddy a year later...mind blowing.

[hawkrider88]

Who is the shorter trumpet player? Nice.

[mikemarlier]

That's Greg Gisbert, who lives here in Denver and sounds fantastic.

[cadillacdude1975]

i believe Eric Miyashiro is the player in question. Greg is great, but really didnt do anything outstanding on this particular track. besides, compared to all 4 trumpet players, Greg is the shortest one.

[cadillacdude1975]

i stand corrected. greg is shorter. i guess i smoked my breakfast that morning lol

[onejagjeff]

Great solo by Jay Craig who now has his own fine band. He's scottish you know !!

[balddanny72]

reminds me of seeing Buddy's band in the summer of '86 in Columbus, Ohio, I was 13 and had no idea I was witnessing the end of an era-he was gone a year later. He's grooving like crazy here-for all his chops, he could be musical and lay down straight-ahead swing like no one else.

[cadillacdude1975]

all you Barker fanboys can sit and throw stones, yes Travis might actually be able to play this. BUT having said that, please learn that there is a difference between a trained player and a god given natural talent. Buddy was just that. he had talent and charisma.

[BassmanII]

Here's a little known tidbit about his last set of drums. Buddy was good friends with the owner of Eames Drums and after one of his heart attacks, he received a Slingerland Radio King snare drum from Eames and Rich asked if he could get the rest of the kit.

Well, the Eames owner was able to piece together the rest of the kit and completely restored it with the Marine Pearl wrap. So there you have it folks. Mr Rich, who in his heyday played Radio Kings, went full circle!!

[JLRappa]

Wow! He looks old here! Wow... 198, and he died in '87! Wow, he still had it!

[brian740]

A friend of mine summed it best in regards to Barker.. "Travis couldn't swing if he was hanging from the end of a rope."

[swtracey]

That kid don't have fuck all on Buddy. I love you guys that put Travis Barker on a high horse Wow big fat Marching chops Travis Barker I was in the Devils as as a snare player . You and Travis should get on and make a video of your own talent shit for brains keep away from drums you have no idea what the fuck your talking about

[tonilrogers]

@swtracey Your right Travis is just a pussy, he is not worthy of sniffing Buddy's chair after a long show!

[gaspo218]

Class act all the way, Al !!

[cadillacdude1975]

did you all see Steve marcus nodding in the lower right hand corner the entire time Al was playing? man Al was blowin that 'bone. and buddy's timing at 3:03 was pure instinct based off the soloist. great tune.

[maalth]

Al Grey! Whew!

[mackans1983]

The last band Buddy played in before he died.RIP MR Rich

[hooray10]

For an old dude like me this brings back great memories of the 40's & 50"s of JATP

[jckturchin]

Sonorjan.......this would be 1986,

[sonorjan]

Jckturchin.

Well, SVT recorded the show in July

1986. That´s of course correct. But I think they broadcasted the show in the winter of 1987. Could have been during christmas 1986 though. However, the piano player in my big band managed to sneak in to Buddy´s caravan after the show and had a chat with Buddy and got his autograph.

/J

[sonorjan]

The band played at the Stockholm Jazz and Blues Festival earlier this evening. and then rapidly transported themselves to the steam roller Dixie Queen. They´re actually playing this show on a boat, at the time located in Stockholm City. Swedish Television broadcasted this show around 1987.

/J

[jckhammer]

awesome groove...and yeah..that kid with the trumpet sounded awesome. Thx for this

[TheyCallMeGroucho]

Nice, nice, nice! Buddy's drums and cymbals come through pretty well. Well done blues bass. Great trombone! The kide blowin the horn - wow! Some interesting angle shots with the camera too. Yeh, thanks Brain. Yes, good stuff!

[beedoe51]

Cool!!! Great Post!!!

[asimmons32]

wow that's a young Eric on trumpet

[JazzzDrummer]

Oh yeah brian ... Super post !