Buddy Rich - the number #1 drummer in the World

in #music7 years ago

Bernard "Buddy" Rich is an American jazz drummer, was born on September 30, 1917 - April 02, 1987, Rich is billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and is known for his virtuoso technique, strength, groove, and speed.

Buddy Rich, commonly nicknamed "Baby Traps The Drum Wonder" is a legend drummer born in Brooklyn, New York. Jazz drummers, Big Band, Swing and bebop actively play in the 1930s era which can be called "jazz-era" swing music and in America at that time was popular played music jazz with Big Band Swing format.

Talent was first recognized by his father as he was able to keep the tempo with the spoon he held. Buddy rich's career is very shiny, at the age of 18 months he has started playing drums in Vaudeville and at the age of 4 years he has performed on Broadway stage and tour to australia at the age of 6 years, he also won a fee of $ 1000 and making him the younger man who earned the highest pay at the time.


Buddy Rich joined the Artie Joe orchestra in 1937 and soon he joined Tommy Dorsey. He stopped short of playing drums to follow the second world war, after the second world war he joined the trumpet player born in Albany, Georgia, U.S is Harry james and make Buddy Rich as the world's most expensive player for $ 1,500.

Buddy drumming technique greatly accentuates the speed and extent of keeping the tempo in the band, his ability to perform a typical shoot rhythm with a touch of accent on the kick drums and build momentum by hitting the cymbals on the drum kit into the forerunner of the jazz swing drum that is still in use today. Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fritzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Harry James, Joe Marsala were recorded to have played with Buddy Rich, despite what eventually Buddy Rich decided to create his own orchestra which he named Buddy Rich And His Orchestra. In 1946 Buddy Rich and Frank Sinatra made a band known for star-studded bands with expensive fees, but unfortunately the band had to disband due not to being able to make a lot of money.


At the end of his life Buddy Rich has inspired other musicians call it Steve Smith and Dave Weckl is a big fan of rich up to now. On April 2, 1987 Buddy Rich left worldly life with heart failure and he was buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cementary in Los Angeles. 


BUDDY RICH - IMPOSSIBLE DRUM SOLO

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