Buddy RICH MEMORIAL CONCERT
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am very consent to AMAZON for the products that offer for quality, path, professionalism.
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GREAT CONCERT FOR GEORGE HARRISON. GREAT SINGERS SING HIS SONGS. GEORGE'S SON PLAYS ACOUSTIC GUITAR. PAUL AND RINGO JOIN IN THE CONCERT. A GREAT TRIBUTE TO A GREAT ARTIST.
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An amazing concert captured on this DVD.  The love and passion for the fallen and living rescue workers at the World Trade Center will be forever remembered on this fantastic DVD.  Excellent musical and personal performances.  Heartwarming rememberances made by children of fallen fighters.  The city and the world needed this concert and it shows!
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I was very pleased with this DVD, my wife watched it with me and even though she is not as big a fan of Buddy and his music as I am, she said it was very good, and entertaining, and she learned a lot about Buddy and his music.

I am pleased to add it to my collection of DVD's and CD's by Buddy Holly and the Crickets.

Would highly recommend it to the loyal fan or someone just discovering Buddy!

Rave ON!!!!
4195375
Awesome!  Saw Prince in concert 12.30.84 at Reunion Arena in Dallas Texas with one of my best friends.  Best concert ever!!!
4574597
I still have my "Budd Johnson and the Four brass Giants" LP, and I listen to it a whole lot. The "Blues for Lester" is a very swinging tribute. Budd gets off some loving Lester tribute licks and plays wonderfully, but what gives this one its signature sound are those four GIANTS - Nat Adderley, Ray Nance, 'Sweets' Edison and Clark Terry. Highly recommended for some classic swinging 'near-bop'.
1143486
This is a very thorough and balanced account of the late Buddy Holly's life.  It is amazing what Lubbock, TX teenagers in the 1950s did for rock and roll.
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Finally, Buddy Rich fans will revel in this fine recording of "The World's Greatest Drummer" featuring his arrangement of composer Bud Powell's "Bouncing with Bud" recorded "live" during the late 1970's. It's hard not to chuckle hearing the highly energized task master Rich in the background yelling out to long-time tenor sax man Steve Marcus: "Alright, folks. What do we have up next?" Marcus replies: "Bouncing with Bud!". Rich sarcastically replies: "Oh, that's nice" and immediately starts off the orchestra with his trademark high hat intro before shouting "One, Two, Three". The orchestra is driven by Rich forcefully forward and they play tight. Amazingly, there is an absence of drum solos, but that in no way takes away from this long-awaited recording of the mercurial band leader and the genius that was Buddy Rich. He is missed by many and this CD is pure Joy!
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After buying this CD, I immediately realized that this CD is pure gold.
This album is intended as a tribute, compiled after SRV's death by his brother Jimmie in 1991. Indeed, Jimmie Vaughan invariably had a hard time  putting this one together. Taking the best of those recordings which hadn't  been used already in previous albums, you get an excellent set that  couldn't be better.
As many of these songs were recorded numerous times,  some are rare versions. My favorite is "Little Wing" from the '84  Power Station session. You can actually hear the amp buzzing in the  background. It just brings him that much closer. What a tender and  heartfelt performance went into the making of his music.
He will always  be deeply cherished and missed.
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This is a fantastic tribute concert! The hightlights for me are:

Tom Thumb's Blues and All Along the Watchtower by Neil Young - he really nailed these songs!

Chrissie Hynde does a great job on I Shall Be Released

Clapton's Don't Think Twice is absolutely amazing! I am NOT a big Clapton fan but he is back to his old self here, doing blues rock, and his playing - and SINGING - are better than I've ever heard him, live.

Tom Petty excels on License To Kill.

McGuinn's Mr. Tambourine Man shows you why the Byrds took flight for a long, beautiful journey back in 1965 or so.

Then you have Richie Havens on Just Like A Woman

And of course Dylan's own Girl From the North Country.

George Harrison's Absolutely Sweet Marie, I thought was a poor selection for him to do, but it's still great to hear him. He fares better in his part of My Back Pages featuring Dylan, McGuinn, Petty, Young and Clapton as well, which may be the highlight of the disc.

There are a few other good songs, and those plus the above make it worth owning this disc!

Everyone has their own taste, but for me, the other artists not mentioned here did not fare so well, even though I do like some of them.

What I did was take the above list of songs and put them on a cd-r, and it is a 100% fantastic single cd! You might want to choose your favorites and do the same. But get this set, it's amazing!
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Excellent Tribute to El Trio de Los Panchos. I give it a 10, recommend it to any Los Panchos fans.
Julian
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i have had the cassette version of this concert for many, many years, and was overjoyed to see amazon finally offering it on cd, in an expanded version.  this is a dream combination of voices, from holly near and arlo guthrie, to ronnie gilbert and pete seeger, who began singing together in the weavers, in the late 40s through the 50s.  ronnie's voice still sounded wonderful at this concert, 30 years after she sang with the weavers.  this was a woman who could put her head back and let her voice take off.  and what can one say about pete that hasn't already been said?  he's a man who's been right in just about everything he believes in, and it's always terrific to hear him perform.  (i recently saw him perform at a "woody at 100" tribute concert; pete's in his early 90s now and still brought the house down).  holly's voice is lovely and strong.  and arlo, well, as always, he's arlo, singing and telling stories to the enjoyment of all.  some songs are sung by one or the other of the performers,but when they sing together you appreciate the songs even more.  i don't find this concert dated at all.  the material sounds incredibly fresh even today.  and listen carefully to the last track.  if i'm not mistaken, joan baez puts in an unannounced appearance!
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Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs and Randy Skaggs -- got together for a concert in NC, and created magic. Amazing picking, energy, and history played well. Randy played, at age 7, on Earl's radio show. Doc, is of course Doc. The three work together with music, comments, and mutual adoration. To really appreciate this historic CD, buy the DVD of the concert. We did this and it was terrific viewing. If you like vintage bluegrass, this must be in your collection.
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I love country, and no one sings country like Charlie Rich. This is a beautiful song and the quality of sound is excellent. All my music is from Amazon and it's all great!
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I'm giving this CD 5 stars because of the outstanding performance of the Channel One Suite. My jazz band is playing this piece of dynamite and I play lead tenor which means I have a wonderful solo. Don Menza plays lead tenor on this date and he owns the piece. He's great on everything he does but even better here.  It's a live recording from the late '60's but it is clean and vibrant.

I also like the other pieces on this disk. These are songs of the times, nicely arranged and tightly played.

Buddy Rich has done some recordings where he is showing off, but here he is really part of the ensemble - admittedly an exceptionally talented and skilled standout, but I never feel that it's more than appropriate. And here he has surrounded himself with a great crew of exceptional players.

There's a lot of joy in this CD, and the musicians in the audience can learn a lot from these guys' interpretations.
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Very good concert, great collaboration of top-notch talent...with an extra nod to the great guitar work of Jon Herrington. I saw the concert on PBS and enjoyed it so much I knew I had to have the DVD.  Terrific duet between Scaggs and Monet Owens on "Miss Sun".
McDonald has a habit of turning his head away from the microphone at the end of some phrases and so some words sound clipped.  Horn section was OK. Audience was somewhat  laid-back for much of the concert so the concert did not have an "electric" atmosphere .  But I would recommend this concert to any fans of Fagen, McDonald and Scaggs.  The "Boz" especially came off well...he still sounds  great.
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Yes, I believe if you want to hear one CD that defines the best of Buddy's sound and energy this is the one.  It was released in the US as Rich in London in the 70's with the same cover photo (I wore out my vinyl copy) but fewer tracks and in a different order, so this more complete version has more music and the benefits of remastering.  If you have the original, yes, it is worth getting this version too.  I believe this is Buddy's strongest trumpet section with Lin Biviano carrying the lead.  The complexity of some of the charts, particularly Little Train and Time Being, goes well beyond swinging and reveals how tight this band really was.  And Buddy's solos show him at his peak of speed and agility.

The recording quality is excellent, as were most of Buddy's other live recordings.  We're very fortunate that Buddy recorded live as often as he did.  Having seen his various bands at least a dozen times I can say a live recording is the only way to come close to capturing the energy and intensity.

So okay, there is one cut - the one with Buddy's daughter Kathy singing - that you may want to skip.  I give her credit, she sounds a lot better than she did when she sang The Beat Goes On on an earlier album.  I nearly saw her perform with the band live once and perhaps my impression could have been changed.  But clearly this was all about a loving father giving his daughter a chance in the spotlight.

Also, check out Wham! Live and No Funny Hats for excellent live performances of the later bands.