Rich,Buddy Classic Collaborations CD

American jazz drummer and bandleader Buddy Rich, born September 1917, is still considered one of the most influential drummers of all time. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he discovered his affinity for jazz music at a young age and began drumming at two years old! He began playing jazz in 1937, working with acts such as Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, and Harry James. From 1942 to 1944, Rich served in the U.S. Marines. From 1945 to 1948, he led the Buddy Rich Orchestra. In 1966, he recorded a big-band style arrangement of songs from West Side Story. He found lasting success in 1966 with the formation of the Buddy Rich Big Band, also billed as the Buddy Rich Band and The Big Band Machine. Rich toured and performed until the end of his life. In early March 1987, he was touring in New York when he was hospitalized after suffering a paralysis on his left side that physicians believed had been caused by a stroke. He was transferred to California to UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles for tests, where doctors discovered and removed a brain tumour. He was discharged a week later, but continued to receive daily chemotherapy treatments at the hospital. On April 2, 1987, he died of unexpected respiratory and cardiac failure after a treatment related to the tumour. His wife Marie and daughter Cathy buried him in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. He was 69. This new release features 4 CDs of Buddy Rich's most iconic works from across his career, showcasing his incredible talent as the most influential drummers of his generation.

1. Let's Fall in Love 2. Me and My Jaguar 3. Just Blues 4. Sweets' Opus No. 1 5. Strike It Rich 6. Sportin' Life (A.K.A. Sweetie Pie) 7. Sonny and Sweets 8. Willow Weep for Me 9. The Two Mothers 10. Yellow Rose of Brooklyn 11. Easy Does It 12. All Sweets 13. Nice Work If You Can Get It 14. Barney's Bugle 15. Now's the Time 16. You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me 17. Back to the Land 18. I've Found a New Baby 19. I Cover the Waterfront 20. Somebody Loves Me 21. I Want to Be Happy 22. The Man I Love 23. Mean to Me 24. Peg O' My Heart 25. Buddy's Blues 26. Bernie's Tunes 27. Gene's Blues 28. Sweethearts on Parade 29. I Never Knew 30. What Is This Thing Called Love 31. I'll Never Be the Same 32. Makin' Whoopee 33. Hallelujah 34. Perdido 35. More Than You Know 36. How High the Moon 37. Lover, Come Back to Me 38. Topsy 39. Undecided 40. Broadway 41. Jumpin' at the Woodside 42. Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) 43. The Casbah 44. Sleep 45. Figure Eights 46. Yesterdays 47. Big Foot 48. Limehouse Blues 49. Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye 50. Jumpin' at the Woodside 51. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 52. Duet 53. Night Train 54. King Porter Stomp 55. Perdido 56. Evolution 57. Hawaian War Chant