Buddy Tate

• 2 ORIGINAL ALBUMS ON 1 CD

• PLUS 1 BONUS TRACK

• INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

Buck Clayton and Buddy Tate began playing together as far back as 1939. They met in the Count Basie orchestra, a band they’d both remain with for nearly a decade. Although they would continue playing and recording together extensively well into the mid-seventies, the two albums contained here, Buck & Buddy (Swingville SVLP2017) and its sequel, Buck & Buddy Blow the Blues (Swingville SVLP2030) are unique for being their only quintet studio LPs. On both works they are backed by the outstanding pianist Sir Charles Thompson and bassist Gene Ramey, while the drum chair is alternately filled by Mousey Alexander and Gus Johnson. A different version of “Thou Swell”, recorded in 1957 by both Clayton and Tate, has been added as a bonus.

PERSONNEL:

• BUCK CLAYTON, trumpet
• BUDDY TATTATTATE, tenor sax
• SIR CHARLES THOMPSON, piano
• GENE RAMEY, bass
• MOUSEY ALEXANDER, drums (on 1-6)
• GUS JOHNSON, drums (on 7-13)

[1-6] Buck & Buddy: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, December 20, 1960.

[7-13] Buck & Buddy Blow the Blues: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, September 15, 1961.

• [14] BONUS TRACKS: Buck Clayton (tp), Buddy Tate (ts), Vic Dickenson (tb),
• Dick Katz (p), Walter Page (b), Bobby Donaldson (d). New York, October 8, 1957.

TRACKS:

• 01) High Life
• 02) When A Woman Loves A Man
• 03) Thou Swell
• 04) Can’t We Be Friends?
• 05) Birdland Betty
• 06) Kansas City Nights
• 07) Rompin’ At Red Bank
• 08) Blue Creek
• 09) A Swinging Doll
• 10) Dallas Delight
• 11) Don’t Mind If I Do
• 12) Blue Breeze
• 13) Blue Ebony
• 14) Thou Swell [1957 Version] *

• TOTAL TIME: 78:34 Min.