Are You Ready for This?
1971 studio album by Louie Bellson, Buddy Rich
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| Studio album by Louie Bellson, Buddy Rich | ||||
| Released | 1971 | |||
| Recorded | January 18, 1965 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Roost / Roulette | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Gramophone magazine March, 1972 | "Technically...breath-taking..." |
Are You Ready for This? is a studio album by jazz drummers Buddy Rich and Louie Bellson, recorded in Japan together with the George Kawaguchi Big Band. Album cover art is by Jack Lonshein.
This recording of "Slides and Hides" includes 22 minutes of soloing by the two drummers and was also included as side 4 of the 1979 European double-LP compilation album, Louis Bellson, With Bells On![1][2]
Track listing
LP side A
- "Slides and Hides Part 1"
LP side B
- "Slides and Hides Part 2"
arrangement: Benny Carter
Personnel
- Louie Bellson – drums
- Buddy Rich – drums
- Blue Mitchell – trumpet
- Junior Cook – tenor saxophone
- Gene Taylor – acoustic bass
- Toshiko Mariano (Toshiko Akiyoshi) – piano
- The George Kawaguchi Big Band
References
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- The Flip Phillips Buddy Rich Trio
- The Swinging Buddy Rich
- Sing and Swing with Buddy Rich
- Buddy and Sweets
- The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio
- The Wailing Buddy Rich
- Krupa and Rich
- The Lionel Hampton Art Tatum Buddy Rich Trio
- Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer
- This One's for Basie
- Buddy Rich Just Sings
- Buddy Rich in Miami
- Richcraft
- Rich Versus Roach
- The Voice Is Rich
- The Driver
- Playtime
- Blues Caravan
- Burnin' Beat
- Are You Ready for This?
- Swingin' New Big Band
- The Sounds of '66
- Big Swing Face
- The New One!
- Rich à la Rakha
- Mercy, Mercy
- Buddy & Soul
- Keep the Customer Satisfied
- A Different Drummer
- Rich in London
- Conversations
- Stick It
- The Roar of '74
- Very Live at Buddy's Place
- Transition
- The Last Blues Album Volume 1
- Big Band Machine
- Speak No Evil
- Buddy Rich Plays and Plays and Plays
- Lionel Hampton Presents Buddy Rich
- Class of '78
- Together Again: For the First Time
- Live at Ronnie Scott's
- Buddy Rich Band
- Buddy Rich, Live at the 1982 Montreal Jazz Festival
- Rich and Famous
- Mr. Drums: Buddy Rich & His Band Live on King Street, San Francisco
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