Buddy Rich - 'The Monster'
Vinyl 12" LP / Album.
Label: Verve Jazz Masters.
Country of Issue: UK.
Catalogue number: Special 2352 100 Mono.
Matrix numbers: A/B1 42005.
Date: recorded 1955-57; this is a 1970s-80s reissue.
Other: sleeve notes.
Provenance: from the collection of a pro jazz saxophonist.
Condition:
Sleeve: picture outer Very Good (+); some ringwear. Plain poly lined inner.
Label: Very Good (++).
Other: ---
Vinyl, visual: Very Good. A few inconsequential marks.
Vinyl, audio: Test played & graded Excellent (+).
Track Listing:
The Monster
Sunday
Lover Come Back to Me
Topsy
Broadway.
'Buddy Rich is the epitome of the jazz drummer, a gum-chewing wiry cynic ... [who] knows he is the world's greatest drummer'. Produced by Norman Granz, line-ups include Oscar Peterson, Ben Webster & Joe Newman. The last 3 tracks (side 2) were taped in a Florida hotel bar.
