Buddy Tate

• DIGIPACK EDITION

If you don’t know what a “Texas Tenor” is, then this album is your introductory lesson. Essentially, it’s a tenor sax player who has a big, breathy and growling sound, swinging with a swagger. Every big band in the 30s and 40s had one, like Illinois Jacquet or Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, and many of them switched over to playing R&B when the big band era started dying out.

One of the first, and best, was Buddy Tate, who started out with Count Basie’s orchestra back in the early days of The Swing Era, and never waned in his style. This album from a 1982 gig in Denmark finds him in vintage form, backed by locals Poul Valde Pederson, Jens Sondergaard for a couple tunes and always with the rhythm tem of Ole Matthiesson, Niles Praestholm and Ove Res.

PERSONNEL:

• Buddy Tate – (tenor saxophone, clarinet)

• WHITE LABEL:
• Ole Matthiessen – (piano)
• Niels Præstholm – (bass)
• Ove Rex – (drums)
• Poul Valdemar Pedersen – (trumpet)
• Jens Søndergaard – (alto saxophone)

Recorded in Holstebro, Denmark, September 25th, 1982.

TRACKS:

• 01. On Green Dolphin Street
• 02. In A Mellotone
• 03. Mood Indigo
• 04. Jumpin’ At The Woodside
• 05. Now’s The Time
• 06. Lester Leaps In
• 07. Tate’s Delight (She’s Got It)