Such are the glories of his band's recorded legacy from the 1930s through the 1950s, that the mere mention of Count Basie's name will trigger a Pavlovian response from his fan base. Like no other, the ...
From the moment in 1983 when he heard Buddy Tate play with fellow “Texas tenors” Illinois Jacquet, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and Arnett Cobb at the Berlin Philharmonic, drummer Torsten Zwingenberger knew ...
If you remember tenor saxophonist Buddy Tate only as the man who joined the Count Basie Band in the spring of 1939, replacing the late Herschel Evans, head down to the Jazz Showcase this week and hear ...
Saxophonist Buddy Tate, a leading member of the Count Basie Orchestra in the 1940s, has died. Tate died Saturday in Chandler, Ariz. He was 87. Considered by many critics to be one of the more ...
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