''Big Band Machine'' is a jazz album recorded by Buddy Rich and his

big band A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s an ...

, released on the

Groove Merchant Groove Merchant was an American jazz and R&B record label during the 1970s. It was run by producer Sonny Lester and distributed by Pickwick Records. Notable artists included Chick Corea, O'Donel Levy, Buddy Rich, Jimmy McGriff, Lonnie Smith and ...

Record label in 1975.

Track listing

LP side A: #"Three Day Sucker" (Lofgreen) – 6:50 #"Tommy Medley" ( Townshend) – 12:26 ##"

Eyesight to the Blind "Eyesight to the Blind" is a 12-bar blues song written and recorded in 1951 by Sonny Boy Williamson II (Aleck "Rice" Miller). He also recorded the related songs "Born Blind", "Unseeing Eye", "Don't Lose Your Eye", and "Unseen Eye" during his care ...

" ##"Champagne" ##"See Me, Feel Me" ##"Miracle Cure" ##"Listening to You" LP side B: #" On Broadway" (

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, Weil, Leiber, Stoller) – 3:48 #" Pieces of Dreams" ( Legrand) – 4:30 #" Ease On Down the Road" (

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) – 3:30 #"''

West Side Story ''West Side Story'' is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet'', the story is set in the mid-1 ...

edley Edley is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bill Edley (born 1948), American businessman and politician *Christopher Edley Jr. (born 1953), American law school dean * Joe Edley (born 1947), American professional Scrabble ...

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, Sondheim) – 5:27 bonus tracks added to 2003 CD re-issue (P-Vine, Japan): #

"Nik Nik" – 2:52 #"Layin' it Down" – 2:50 bonus tracks added to 2005 CD re-issue (LRC Records): #

"Playhouse" (Albam) – 6:26 #"Lush Life" (Loose) – 4:09 *''"Three Day Sucker" arranged by Lofgreen'' *''"Tommy" Medley arranged by Michael Longo'' *''"On Broadway" arranged by Dave Marowitz'' *''"Pieces of Dream" arranged by Richard Lieb'' *''"Ease on Down the Road" arranged by David Berger'' *''"West Side Story" Medley arranged by Bill Reddie''

Reception

The

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awarded the album 3 stars.Allmusic Review
accessed July 2, 2012

Personnel

* William "Bill" Blount –

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B tenor ...

player cited incorrectly in liner notes as Bill "Blaut" * Peter Yellin – alto saxophone *

Steve Marcus Steve Marcus (September 18, 1939 – September 25, 2005) was an American jazz saxophonist. Biography Marcus was born in The Bronx, New York, United States. He studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, between 1959 and 19 ...

– tenor saxophone,

soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument invented in the 1840s. The soprano is the third-smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists (from smallest to largest) of the soprillo, sop ...

Bob Mintzer Robert Alan Mintzer (born January 27, 1953) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader. Early life Mintzer was born and raised in a Jewish family in New Rochelle, New York, on January 27, 1953. He attended the Inter ...

–

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

* Roger Rosenberg –

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use - the bass, contra ...

* Lloyd Michels – trumpet * Charles Camilleri – trumpet * Danny Hayes – trumpet * Richard Hurwitz – trumpet * Ross Konikoff – trumpet * Barry Maur – trombone * Gerald Chamberlain – trombone * Anthony Salvatori –

bass trombone The bass trombone (german: Bassposaune, it, trombone basso) is the bass instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments. Modern instruments are pitched in the same B♭ as the tenor trombone but with a larger bore, bell and mouthpiece to ...

* Cliff Morris – guitar * Cornell Dupree – guitar * Wayne Wright – guitar * Greg Kogan –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

* Ben Brown – bass * Buddy Rich – drums * Ray Armondo – congas

References

*Groove merchant GM 3307 (1975 LP) *Simitar Distribution 1290 (1999 CD) *P-Vine Records 23460 (2003 CD) *LRC Records 24105 (2005 CD)
''Big Band Machine'' at discogs.com
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