Buddy Collette

[Hardbopjazz]

I stumbled across a CD in my collection by Chico Hamilton . He has Buddy Collette playing on it. I really started to dig his sound. Any other suggestions of recordings by him or with him?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

He made a very pleasant LP for World Pacific with Charles Kynard.

A bit small, but it's called "Warm winds". Collette is on flute.

There's some nice tenor playing somewhere in my collection, but I can't think of where...

MG

[king ubu]

I have the Hamilton Mosaic and enjoy it a lot, in fact the dates with Collette, both studio and live, are very good, in my opinion! He's got more beef than Dick Katz, later on.

Collette appears on a few tracks on the great Uptown Baron Mingus 40s disc - I always find it interesting to be reminded again of these common beginnings of Britt Woodman, Charles Mingus and Buddy Collette, hard to think of more different musicians, if viewed from their later careers!

There are two fine discs of Collette out on Fresh Sound, "Tasty Dish" and "Soft Touch" (better get both together, my versions as well as all others i've seen in stores have the front covers mixed up/printed onto the wrong liners...). On these you can hear Collette fronting his own quintet with Gerald Wilson, Al Viola, Gerald Wiggins, Howard Roberts a.o.

Info is here: http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/search.ph...p;artist_id=859

I don't know the OJCs of Collette's and I guess they're gone by now... there also was a flute duet album with Herbie Mann on Mode, presumably on CD by VSOP, but I don't have it, either.

I think I like Collette's tenor the best, in general, so the Hamilton dates fit me well as he's playing all his three horns there, not just the bottom-less flute stuff (though I'm not a flute hater at all, Collette wouldn't be my first choice - I prefer an approach like Yusef Lateef's...)

[jazztrain]

My favorites by Collette are "Nice Day" and "Man of Many Parts." Both were recorded for Contemporary and are (or were) available as OJCs. I enjoy his clarinet playing which is clean and almost polite at times but also recognizable in part due to its understated quality. The title track to "Nice Day" is particularly pleasant.

Collette also appears on and solos occasionally on other Contemporary albums by the likes of Barney Kessel, Red Norvo, and Lyle Murphy. His dates with Chico Hamilton are also worthwhile.

The two "Swinging Shepherds" albums on Emarcy are less memorable (unless you're a big fan of jazz flute -- each has several flutists) except for their distinctive covers.

I stumbled across a CD in my collection by Chico Hamilton . He has Buddy Collette playing on it. I really started to dig his sound. Any other suggestions of recordings by him or with him?

[brownie]

Collette is excellent on this Conte Candoli date where he plays tenor throughout

also on this album recorded in Italy

[mikeweil]

I have the Hamilton Mosaic and enjoy it a lot, in fact the dates with Collette, both studio and live, are very good, in my opinion! He's got more beef than Dick Katz, later on.

?!?!?!?!? There was a Fred Katz playing cello in Hamilton's group, and Collette's successors were Paul Horn and Eric Dolphy, then Charles Lloyd ....... Dick Katz was a New York pianist. (You mixed 'em up, I guess ...)

[couw]

also on this album recorded in Italy

is that the same as "Buddy Collette in Italy", w/ Valdambrini, Basso & Azzolini?

Very good one that.

[king ubu]

Ooops, Paul Horn was whom I meant... mix up of four letter names... thanks for clarifying!