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Rich was born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish parents Bess Skolnik and Robert Rich, both American vaudevillians. [5]: 6 At 18 months old, he became part of his parents' vaudeville act, dressed in a sailor suit playing an arrangement of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" behind a large bass and snare drum - an act which concluded with him emerging from behind the drums tap-dancing ...
Back in the U.S., he became a member of the Buddy Rich band in 1968 and recorded a well-known solo with that band on "Channel One Suite". [2] In the 1970s he was a member of The Tonight Show Band. [3] He later lived in California and played with Elvin Jones and Louie Bellson. [2] In 2005, Menza was inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame. [4]
In addition to hiring Buddy Rich, he signed Billie Holiday as his band's vocalist in 1938, becoming the first white band leader to hire a full-time black female singer to tour the segregated Southern U.S. [12] However, after recording "Any Old Time", Holiday left the band due to hostility from audiences in the South, as well as from music ...
Her drumming has been praised by fellow musicians Hal Blaine, Cubby O'Brien and Buddy Rich, [113] and by Modern Drummer magazine. [42] She appeared in the drummer rankings of every Playboy annual music poll from 1974 [114] to 1980; [115] Playboy ' s readers voted her as high as tenth best drummer in 1975 [116] and tenth best pop/rock drummer ...
He spent much of his life working in Las Vegas. He played trumpet in bands led by Louie Bellson, Buddy Morrow, and Billy May. He composed "Little Train", which was recorded by the Buddy Rich Big Band. He worked as trumpeter and conductor for Frank Sinatra and Frank Sinatra Jr.
Holman's writing is featured on several Buddy Rich big band albums from 1966 through 1985 to include Grammy nominated LPs Big Swing Face and Buddy & Soul. Holman's arrangement of the Beatles "Norwegian Wood" was a commercial success, and prominently featured on numerous live television performances, creating a high profile early on for Rich's ...
Buddy Duress (né Michael C. Stathis), who starred alongside Robert Pattinson in the Safdie brothers’ 2017 crime thriller “Good Time,” has died. He was 38. Duress’ brother Christopher ...
Pat (Pascel Emmanuel) LaBarbera (born April 7, 1944) is an American-born Canadian jazz tenor, alto and soprano saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist born in Mt. Morris, New York, most notable for his work as a soloist in Buddy Rich bands from 1967 to 1973. [1] [2] [3] He moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1974, and is a member of the faculty at ...