Buddy Rich & Louie Bellson - "Are You Ready for This!" 1965
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2018
- Buddy Rich & Louie Bellson with the George Kawaguchi Big Band,. Featuring Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Junior Cook on tenor, and Gene Taylor on bass. Recorded in Japan, 1965.
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What can you say. Brilliant. I mentioned these two drummers to a music teacher at a school where i have a cleaning job. Never heard of them. Oh dear oh dear.
Louie and Buddy I think pulled out every trick the could think of in this battle. Those two never let up at all, almost like a battle to the finish.
The amount of horsepower to pull this off is unbelievable ..and both of these guys only in their forties
To me it sounds like Buddy puts a cherry on top of almost anything anyone hands him.
Interesting fact: I lived in Japan for 10 years and talked to some people about this album as it was recorded in Tokyo and buddy is not playing on his own set he’s playing on Japanese jazz drumming great JimmyTakeuchi’s Drum set which is why on the back cover the black-and-white photo of buddy he’s playing on a ripple Rogers drum set! I can’t tell what color ripple it is because it’s a black-and-white photo but that’s Jimmy’s drum set when I lived in Japan I was able to talk to Jimmy on the phone one time before he passed away (dementia)! he was one of the late great Japanese drum stars! He was known as the “BUDDY RICH OF JAPAN”! nice guy! I would love to have met him and hung out with him but I never had a chance! Just saying!
In the 1990s there was a BUDDY RICH Fan Club Japan. I I was proud to be a member of that club. we had meetings every year dinner and auctions it was a great time to get together with other Japanese fans of Buddy and Louis and Gene and all the great American jazz drummers were celebrated At these meetings!
My good friend, YOSHIKI HORI Was (is) The president of the Buddy Rich fan club in JAPAN🇯🇵!
I have this record and I bought it when it first came out. I remember playing it for the first time and I just couldn't believe my ears.
Wow! You've done it again sir! This is like the Mozart and Beethoven of jazz drumming. Epic indeed! I don't think we will ever hear drumming like this again. Their era was the best.
Eternally grateful for this
Knew about it for years but finally hearing it!
1965 was not the heyday of big bands in the states but in foreign countries it endured
🙏 thanks so much. Theres only 1 place i can go get jazz albums and its in Hollywood an hour and a half away and im broke ... this jumped to way up in my list now. Its a big deal since i tend to only have enough for 3 albums on average.
Awesome pictures pretty sure some are from the Conversations Concert, then buddies 4 bar at 8:17 choked cymbals and at 15:30 on the stool, got to be the best 4 bar breaks ever IMO. This recording and also the Rich versus Roach Album contain the best 'Battles if you like' between these great drummers and you won't find any better exchanges with buddy showing why he was called the greatest, and this is a perfect example, his playing here is beyond a analysis. Nice to hear the complete recording here without the breaks in pt.1 (side1) and part2 (side 2) on the album which was cut in the middle of the recording.
mikebuddy1 yes. Aside from the first two B/W shots of Buddy & Louie, which are from the back of the album jacket, the pics are from the Conversations concert.
Cheers Drumuitar, Thanks for the great uploads
Yeah I got this album when I was in high school and I used to play it incessantly I think it was a mono copy I still have it I’ve gotten several of the copies over the years since then and I even got Buddy and Louis both to sign the back cover! Note the “ ripple” Rogers drum set that Buddy is shown playing on the back cover belonged to late Japanese Drumming legend Jimmy Takeuchi!
I’ve been collecting Buddy Rich incessantly since the late 70s and have never found a copy of this. Thank you for posting! That was exhausting…
I have a lot of albums by buddy I'm willing to part with
I got tons of his albums I'd be willing to sell
Rogers Drums versus Rogers Drums!! :))
Was Rich playing Rogers or Slingerland at the time? All the pictures show Slingerlands.
@@spercocoin 1965, Buddy and Louie played Rogers!
Absolutely fantastic!!!! How did I have no knowledge of this... Vive Drumuitar!!
Great to see this finally! You know all the Rich & Bellson fans have it already. I always thought somebody (maybe family of artists) was having it pulled off if someone else tried to post it. This is the Holy Grail for BR/LB!!
Many thanks for this Upload!
this might be number 1
Too bad they didn’t videotape this recording! it was done during the “gorgeous drum festival”(Japanese name for this)! which was a big drum show that they had in Japan in 1965 with Philly Joe Jones and Art Blakey Buddy and Louis This recording was done as an afterthought while they were both in Tokyo together! Royal roost put out the album and I would love to see this Recording released as a CD in Japan I get 10 copies for myself!
Both scored 11 out of a
possible 10.
O 'A classic. One can hear Louie's great musicality and technique as clearly as ever. And Buddy was such a giant on drum, however; unapproachable in terms of technical ability and drum solos. They both were unusual; Buddy, the overall showman; and Louie, the all-around musican, whose drumming proved equal to that of a percussionist.
Buddy stands alone, nevertheless. His was that of force, speed, magnitude and dimension -- not quite one of musicality as was Louie's till Buddy's last 20 years on drum.
One had as aptly say that Buddy's playing should be required listening-to by all Physics majors in the Schools, so unchartable proved his drumming. Count Basie's band members championed his sit-ins over that of Sonny Payne: Basie's band was tight as was Buddy's playing tight; his, both powerful, precise.
For me it's Louie all the way- But I've matured into appreciating & preferring Louie's playing
Awesome stuff here, or should I say HEAR?
😊hi
Wasn't George Kawaguchi the Japanese Louie Bellson, famous for using the two bass drums like Louie. Iv'e got this album and always thought this is the best drum ( battle ) ever recorded. This was the time that Buddy said he was playing the best of his fabulous career. You can't tell them apart sometimes.
Steve Bullard George was a huge Bellson fan but I think you’re probably referring to Hideo Shiraki. He copied Louie’s set, his tunings, and his live version of Skin Deep sounds so much like LB that it’s scary!
I lived in Japan for 10 years and talked to people about George KAWAGUCHI
He was a well-known Japanese drum star There! he was known as the: “GENE KRUPA OF JAPAN”! From What the Japanese drummers Over there told me!
Louie's set sounds a little better on this recording from the snare to the bass drums to the toms ad even the cymbals than Buddie's. Buddie's bass drum sounds flat his snare sounds a little choked and the toms sound a little distorted. Not sure if it's the way he tuned his drums or the engineer or producer who was responsible for micing. Playing wise I always thought Rich was a little better but on this recording I would say they were about even but maybe the drum sound swayed me in Bellson's favor.
I love Louie, but Buddy clearly wins in technique. Gene's drums always sounded better than Buddy's. Buddy's bass was rarely recorded well unless you go back to the 30s.