Buddy Rich - Burning For Buddy
Neil Peart invited 18 of the world's most respected drummers to record an album as the ultimate tribute to Bernard "Buddy" Rich. This DVD was shot during those Burning for Buddy sessions. It contains preparations for the recording, final takes, interviews with the drummers about Buddy, candid footage of the control room during playback, and more, all tied together by Neil Peart's beautiful commentary. This 2 DVD set features: Kenny Aronoff, Gregg Bissonette, Billy Cobham, Steve Gadd, David Garibaldi, Neil Peart, Simon Phillips, Steve Smith, Dave Weckl and many more.
2 DVDS 5 hours
Buddy Rich - Jazz Legend
This DVD details the spectacular life of Buddy Rich, his music, and his passion. The DVD features extremely rare performance footage from 1939 to 1970 of Rich with the bands of Artie Shaw, Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, as a leader of his own small groups and big bands, and in a unique drum duel with Gene Krupa. Buddy Rich produced his largest and most impressive body of work as a leader of his own big band from 1970 until his death in 1987. This DVD offers many clips from television specials, home movies and jazz festivals.
147 minutes
Special features include: performance selection, historical timeline, additional footage and production reviews, internet connectivity.
Buddy Rich - Jazz Icon
Buddy Rich performs in Holland with sidemen Chuck Schmidt, Mark Ohlsen, Mike McGovern, John Marshall, Dale Kirkland, Glenn Frank, George Moran, Chuck Wilson, Andy Fusco, Steve Marcus, Gary Pribeck, Greg Smith, Tom Warrington, and Bob Kaye. Richard Havers provides liner notes.
Buddy Rich - Memorial Scholarship Concerts
The world's finest drummers came together with the Buddy Rich Big Band on October 14, 1989, to honor Buddy Rich. This 2 DVD set features Neil Peart, Dennis Chambers, Dave Weckl, Steve Gadd, Louie Bellson, Gregg Bissonette, Vinnie Colaiuta, Marvin 'Smitty' Smith, Steve Smith, Omar Hakim and Will Calhoun. Special features including photo gallery and 3 bonus performances starring Buddy Rich.
Running time approx 270 mins. 2 DVDS
Buddy Rich - Montreal Jazz Festival '82
Buddy and his band at the height of their popularity and influence, with seven arrangements that display not only Buddy Rich's virtuosity but his unsurpassed musicianship, as well. Included is a rare example of Buddy on brushes and a brilliant rendition of his signature piece, the medley from West Side Story.
(Bonus Clip on DVD only).
Special DVD Features: A rare bonus clip featuring a great 1972 performance of "On Green Dolphin Street".
Salute To Buddy Rich
A Salute to Buddy Rich features Phil Collins, Steve Smith and Dennis Chambers with the Buddy Rich Band and Buddy's Buddies. Eight compositions are performed by Phil Collins, including several from his own repertoire, as well as several from Buddy's original repertoire. Two great tunes from Buddy's song book are performed by Steve Smith and two by Dennis Chambers, along with rehearsal footage, interviews and three vintage clips of Buddy Rich himself!
143 minutes
Buddy Rich - At The Top
This concert was recorded at The Top of the Plaza in Rochester, NY on February 6, 1973 and remains one of the most sought after and influential shows ever recorded by Buddy. Special Feature includes three incredible bonus clips.
87 minutes
Selections: Love For Sale, Norwegian Wood, One for My Baby (comedy routine), Time Check, Basically Blues, Uncle Albert /Admiral Halsey, What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life, West Side Story Medley
Bonus material: Unaccompanied drum solo- 1978. "I've Got A Secret"--TV, "What's My Line?"--TV, Dick Cavett Show--TV
Buddy Rich also appears on the following DVDs
Charlie Parker - Improvisation
In 1944, Norman Granz and Gjon Mili collaborated on a film about jazz music called "Jammin' the Blues". In 1950 they collaborated again on a film about jazz improvisation that was never completed ("Jazz at The Philharmonic"). This footage has now been combined with other film of jazz improvisation shot by Granz at different times and locations to create this new film. Included is material by Mili in 1950, Duke Ellington at the Cote D'Azur, Count Basie at Montreux Jazz Festival in 1977, Joe Pass in 1979, Ella Fitzgerald in 1979, and Oscar Peterson with Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis at Montreux in 1977.
Classic Drum Solos and Drum Battles -
Volume One
This DVD presents fifteen of the true “legends of jazz drumming” in astounding extended solos and in rare, never-before-seen drum duels filmed over the last five decades. Among the highlights are uncut solos from big band legends Sonny Payne, Rufus Jones, Buddy Rich, Sam Woodyard and Louie Bellson; and small group giants Art Blakey and Joe Morello.
Rare drum battles include meetings between Gene Krupa and Cozy Cole, Buddy Rich and Ed Shaughnessy, Chico Hamilton, Gene Krupa and Lionel Hampton; Elvin Jones, Sunny Murray and Art Blakey; and a once-in-a-lifetime battle between Buddy Rich and Jerry Lewis! Bonus track is the original theatrical trailer for “The Gene Krupa Story,” never seen outside movie theaters, where it was shown in 1958
Classic Drum Solos and Drum Battles -
Volume Two
Fifteen thunderous, drum solos from legends like Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, “Papa” Jo Jones, Art Blakey, Shelly Manne, Sonny Payne, Sam Woodyard, Rufus “Speedy” Jones, and others, spanning the years 1947 to 1989, many never before released on DVD. Bonus clips include Bobby Troup’s “history of the jazz drum set,” from 1958 and a great segment featuring the Gene Krupa Jazz Trio impersonating Russian musicians from 1946!
"Classic Drum Solos Vol 2 is filled with fun and inspiration for any drummer...some great moments [include] Gene Krupa's band practicing in a boiler room, only to have him solo on the pipes around the room…The Papa Jo Jones piece…is simply beautiful to watch." —Modern Drummer Magazine, Feb. 2003
Classic Jazz Drummers: Swing and Beyond
Highlights include films of the legendary Sid Catlett with Louis Armstrong, Ray Bauduc with Jack Teagarden, Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich with their own orchestras, Gus Johnson with the rarely-heard Count Basie small group, Joe Harris with the pioneering Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, Panama Francis with Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, never-before-seen solo footage of Philly Joe Jones, Stan Levey with a small group, the groundbreaking bop of Kenny Clarke and many others.
A certifiable find: The only existing film of that influential New Orleans pioneer, the one and only Warren “Baby” Dodds.
Classic Jazz Drummers presents six decades of legendary drummers soloing and battling, but above all fulfilling their most important role: driving the band.
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