Buddy Rich Dorchester Hotel part 1

Buddy Rich at the Dorchester Hotel,London 1973 from the Beeb,playing one of the best charts ever written for a big band,Don Menza's 'Time Check'
Feat.Solos by:Pat LaBarbara,Sax Section:Pat,Space man,Fat man,Fatter man and Him!(buddy's quote)I synked a new audio track over video,some sync.problems through sax section (droped frames)but much better than orignal audio & works quite well.
Personell:Charley Davis, Greg Hopkins, John Hoffman, Larry Hall (Trumpet)
Alan Kaplan, Keith O'Quinn, John Leys (Trombone)
Joe Romano, Bob Martin (Alto Sax)
Pat LaBarbera, Bob Crea (Tenor Sax)
John Aslawsby (Baritone Sax)
Buddy Budson (Piano)
James Bruno (Guitar)
Ronald Paley (Bass)
Buddy Rich (Drums)

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• KeithO'Quinn
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• Leys
• JoeRomano
• BobMartin
• PatLaBarbera
• BobCrea
• JohnAslawsby
• BuddyBudson
• James
• Bruno
• BuddyRich

[bigbreadeaterellis]

isn't it strange

i live in london and everyone living here has to pay to watch bbc channels and i'm sure this show is in the archives but we would be lucky to ever see it re-run again on british tv.

buddy doesn't seem to be playing at his best on this but its still good.

[mikebuddy1]

I know what you mean.

We all had those ariels reaching what seemed like 500 feet into the sky to pullin those stations but it worked fine.We will never see resruns although we seen a brief clip on the Parkinson Music Highlights(final shows)It's just as well someone had video recorders in those days.

[FlipShiznit]

This is AWESOME... Is this available on DVD anywhere???

[mikebuddy1]

No,not that i know!

[MarkR1957]

Buddy was a relentless, unstopable, super-human Jazz Machine ~

[uwepetersen]

KILLER!!!

[ces1drums]

I would kill to have that set of Slingerlands!!!!

[ishredu]

3:14 no one even knows wtf THAT thing he plays actually is..I know this because I've seen buddy do it many times and yet I've never seen even the self proclaimed buddy wannabe clones get anywhere near that kind of a thing going on

[ishredu]

@bigbreadeaterellis buddy himself described this brief era'74'75 as not being his best just a lil slump he killed it all the same!

[29dave]

Donny Osmond pin FTW

[dlechler1]

@MarkR1957 This is the real stuff.

[drummerbrown20]

ok i swear one of the beatles is on a pin on buddy's chest

[drummerbrown20]

@bigbreadeaterellis still, its damn good

[rayjr62]

@MrDrumsdrumsdrums LOL- And it wasn't so much that he hated Donny personally- What Buddy hated was mediocrity- Essentially a music industry that glorified (and promoted) the Donny Osmonds' of the world over real musical talent like his.

[buddyrichman]

Great stuff! I too remember watching this series as a lad, then in later years my dad taking me to see Buddy several times in Birmingham and Coventry, also the Basie band who appeared in Birmingham and Oxford in the mid 70's. The Osmond badge was all to do with Buddy's appearance on Parkinson when he was slagging off the Osmonds. He wore an Osmonds tee-shirt when we saw the band at Birmingham Town Hall the same year.