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I remember this one guy, a jazz-dabbling "new music" poseur type, complaining about Pablo, how they were putting out all these useless records by people who don't matter any more. He specifically cited Roy Eldridge - why does anybody need to hear Roy Eldridge in 1976?!?!?!?!

Fuck that guy. All kinds of wrong, he was.

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Geez - why do I not have a Roy Eldridge album featuring Budd Johnson and Norris Turney? I'm going to correct that right away.

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Just found a nice mono copy of this one. I always love it when I find a record with the Music Inn record store stamp - that was a long-gone jazz/R & B shop in Atlanta.

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Geez - why do I not have a Roy Eldridge album featuring Budd Johnson and Norris Turney? I'm going to correct that right away.

You'll also get a little bit of Milt Jackson thrown in as well!

Been succumbing to a combination of nostalgia and curiosity, been hitting the cheap bins to replace long-ago-sold items, decided to go back to the Gladewater High School band hall this afternoon via:

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Being cheap copies, these do have some wear. But after a recent excursion through the same material on the expanded CD reissues, I'm struck by the amount of compression used on the LPs. It's not a bad thing, really, kinda limits the dynamic ceiling compared to digital (and as a result punches everything up really nicely, i mean, POP becomes POP!!!), but when the band is playing at all but the softest tempos, you don't hear the crackles and pops. The music just charges right through all that mess, which strikes me as totally appropriate for Buddy Rich records.

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A mixed bag, to be sure, but to hear Buddy on "Superstar", you'd think it was (or could possibly be) Tony Williams on the drums. Buddy playing that faster type rock beat, good lord, there was energy there, energy directed straight to the music at hand.

I might even say that I'd rather hear Buddy play rock rhythm than swing. At times, anyway.

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