Swingin' New Big Band / Keep The Customer Satistfied [Import, Original recording remastered]

Buddy Rich | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 15, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
• ASIN: B0000011MQ
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #754,795 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Readymix

2. Basically Blues

3. Critic's Choice

4. My Man's Gone Now

5. Uptight (Everything's Alright)

6. Sister Sadie

7. More Soul

8. West Side Story Medley: Overture/Cool/Somewhere/Something's Coming/Finale

9. Keep The Customer Satisfied

10. Long Day's Journey

11. Midnight Cowboy Medley: Midnight Cowboy/ He Quit Me/ Everybody's Talking/ Tears And Joys

12. Celebration

13. Groovin' Hard

14. The Juicer Is Wild

15. Winning The West

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars NICE TRY....BUT NOT THE RIGHT VERSIONS, February 2, 2001

By 

C. Law "Charlie Law" (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Swingin' New Big Band / Keep The Customer Satistfied (Audio CD)

This is a combination of (2) Pacific Jazz releases, one recorded at "The Chez" in Hollywood,1966, (Buddy's first recording with the new band), and the other from a live session at the Tropicana Hotel/Casino, Las Vegas, in 1970. The later session ("Keep The Customer Satisfied") was left intact, but in trying to cram TWO ALBUMS into ONE DISC, they actually (ugh!) EDITED the "Swingin' New Big Band" album, cutting a lot of the jazz solos OUT to save running time!! I can appreciate WHY this was done, but it's hard to FORGIVE it!!

Overlooking that sin, until now (Feb. 2001), this disc was worth getting just for the "Keep The Customer Satisfied" album...you couldn't get it anywhere else. The music is GREAT on BOTH of these albums and FORTUNATELY, NOW they have been remastered individually by former Rich sidemen, with EXTRA BONUS TRACKS never heard before and NOTHING edited out. Keep lookin', brother, THIS ONE AIN'T IT!!

Go find "Swingin' New Big Band" and "Keep The Customer Satisfied" in their individual and original form elsewhere on the website under "Buddy Rich" and BUY THEM!!! Don't waste your money on this one (unless you can only AFFORD to buy ONE CD). Get the ORIGINAL versions of each one SEPARATELY....you'll still get MORE for your MONEY!!

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Bother, December 24, 2004

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David Renzi (Las Vegas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Swingin' New Big Band / Keep The Customer Satistfied (Audio CD)

Both of these are five-star discs singularly. Together, they're a disaster. The record company that put out this CD made some egregious cuts in "Swingin' New Big Band" to make it fit on a disc with "Keep The Customer Satisfied," and left this customer completely dissatisfied. Longtime Buddy Rich fans know this material backwards and forwards and can't be fooled. Buy them separately.

4.0 out of 5 stars Buddy swings his ass off!!!, August 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Swingin' New Big Band / Keep The Customer Satistfied (Audio CD)

A great selection of tunes on a difficult to find disk. It's Buddy Rich being Buddy Rich. A must-have for any fan of big band music. No one ever kicked a band like Buddy. Kneel down before the Master.