Buddy Collette - Buddy Collette and His West Coast Friends (2009)

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Title: Buddy Collette and His West Coast Friends
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: Fresh Sound Records
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 79:43 min
Total Size: 212 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Jungle Pogo Stick
02. Green Dream
03. Its You
04. A Walk In The Veldt
05. How Long Has This Been Going On?
06. The Blinfold Test
07. Tanganyka
08. Wagnervous
09. And So Is Love
10. Coming Back For Me
11. Crows Nest
12. Remember
13. Sunset Drive
14. Some Folks Like The Blues
15. I Hear Bells
16. Buzzin Cool
17. One Morning In May
18. Heat Wave
19. Thats All
20. Youre Devasting Me
21. Top Hat, White Tie And Tails
22. Mood For Max


The primary focus of the two albums compiled in this CD set rests on Buddy Collettes talents as a writer and as a multi-reed instrumentalist. Although the sleevenotes didnt say so, Tanganyka was Buddy Collettes album; he is the composer of most of the tunes and is featured throughout. On the second album, Mood for Max, a Max Albrights drummer date, Collette, as a player, is clearly the star of the session, along with trumpeter John Anderson. Both also made considerable contributions as composers and arrangers for the session.

Despite the presence of other great soloists on both dates, among them Jim Hall, Gerald Wiggins, Curtis Counce, Chico Hamilton and William Green, Buddys taste and sensitivity as a player and writer dominates. The writing ranges from the African exoticism that Collette had a penchant for delivering, as well as some Basie-type tunes, standards, and moody and groovy originals. Overall, it is an excellent example of the tight, considered writing that characterizes the best of the West Coast style.