Buddy Rich

Army in Germany during World War II before beginning a career as a drummer with big bands starring Tommy Dorsey and Buddy Rich.

Charlie Callas Dies AP 2011

Bandleader and drummer Max Weinberg, known for his years of service with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band as well as Conan O'Brien's NBC late-night talk shows, is bringing the sounds of Count Basie and Buddy Rich to the stage with a 15-piece band.

A Hiro's Welcome for Spring Swing Pia Catton 2011

Last week I traveled to Mr. Blaine's home here to talk about his prolific career as the Buddy Rich of rock and pop recordings.

Who Else Made More Hit Songs? Marc Myers 2011

Few Broadway musicals have been loved by jazz musicians and arrangers more than Leonard Bernstein 's masterpiece, which has inspired at least four extended big-band treatments: Manny Albam (1957), Stan Kenton and Johnny Richards (1961), Buddy Rich and Bill Peddie (1966), and the Dave Grusin Orchestra (1997).

The Jazz Scene: Sultry Styles and 50 Years of the Rumble Will Friedwald 2011

Sad to say, the most famous anecdote about the relationship between jazz and country music involves Buddy Rich on his deathbed in 1987.

Jazz Finds a Country Home Will Friedwald 2011

After decades of decline, jazz orchestras experienced a renaissance in the mid-1970s, thanks to the renewed vitality of Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson and a few others.

Russ Gershon's Wide Big-Band World Will Friedwald 2011

I appeared on the Grammys in '86--I don't know if you're aware of that--and Manhattan Transfer was on the same stage, and Sarah Vaughan, also Bobby McFerrin, and Buddy Rich was on drums...

Mike Ragogna: Country's Cousins: Conversations with Diane Schuur and America's Got Talent Winner Michael Grimm Mike Ragogna 2011

I appeared on the Grammys in '86--I don't know if you're aware of that--and Manhattan Transfer was on the same stage, and Sarah Vaughan, also Bobby McFerrin, and Buddy Rich was on drums...

Mike Ragogna: Country's Cousins: Conversations with Diane Schuur and America's Got Talent Winner Michael Grimm Mike Ragogna 2011

Rosemary's singing, Nat Cole's playing piano, Satchmo's on the horn, Buddy Rich is on the drums, and they're singing Always. — George Clooney on Inside the Actors Studio, on how he'd like to be greeted at the Pearly Gates.

Matt's TV Week in Review: Stunts on Grey's and Glee, and More 2012

So is Buddy Rich's 11-minute "West Side Story Suite"—I only hope that whatever unfortunate student drummer is in that chair appreciates the full value of prayer.

The Jazz Scene: Sultry Styles and 50 Years of the Rumble Will Friedwald 2011