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Tate Live

by Buddy Tate

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Tangerine 10:38
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Intro SGB 00:18
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Summertime 10:02
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Intro JATW 00:31
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She's Got It 10:46

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Veteran tenor saxophonist Buddy Tate toured with a band led by young drummer Torsten Zwingenberger in both 1983 and 1988; the selections heard on this live recording made at the Quasimodo in Berlin are from the latter year. The rest of the group includes vibraphonist Hendrik Meurkens (who would later make a name for himself as a leader on several Concord releases), pianist Otto Weiss, and bassist Dieter Gutzkow. For the most part, the group sticks to extended workouts of well-known standards like "Tangerine" and "Sweet Georgia Brown," though a rare appearance by Tate on flute is ruined somewhat because the tape reel ran out prematurely. A furious take of "Jumpin' at the Woodside" is followed by a smoking closing blues, "She's Got It," with humorous (but somewhat throwaway) vocals by Tate and Meurkens. Tate proves to be an entertaining MC, and it is fun to hear him try to pronounce the drummer's name. Since this is one of Buddy Tate's last recordings prior to a 1988 heart attack (though he made a few recordings after his triple-bypass surgery), bop fans will want to pick up this Nagel-Heyer CD.

AllMusic Review by Ken Dryden

Tenor saxophonist Buddy Tate was born George Holmes Tate on February 22, 1915. He grew up in Texas and later came to be known as one of the great "Texas Tenors" with Illinois Jacquet and Arnett Cobb. In 1939 he was invited by Count Basie to replace Evans, who had died suddenly. "I dreamed he had died", Tate told writer Stanley Dance later, "and that Basie was going to call me. It happened within a week or two: I still have the telegram". Buddy stayed with Basie for nine happy years.

After Basie, a gig at the Celebrity Room on 125th Street in Harlem led to a stay of 21 straight years "until the clientele began to change: They wanted rock and didn't appreciate what we were doing so we quit". He can be heard on records with Basie, Jimmy Rushing, Jay McShann and with numerous groups under his own name. Count Basie was certainly thinking of Buddy when he said "the band has always been built from the rhythm, to the tenors and then to the rest of the band."

All through the 1950's he had recorded regularly, an occasional toured with Buck Clayton so as to keep himself in the public eye, which helped when he chose to freelance again, as there were immediate keen offers for his services.

On the European circuit he teamed up with Jim Galloway and Jay McShann and after the death of Jimmy Forrest he teamed up with trombonist Al Grey.

In the U.S. he worked the festival circuit and co-led a band with Bobby Rosengarden at the Rainbow Room.

Buddy grew up in the era where jazz was moving from the traditional "two beat" feel into the more swing four. The former sounds corny to us today but it had its function for a certain style of dancing and was also fitting for the jazz band instrumentation of the day, especially the tuba. "The Buddy System" attempts to capture these two feels and also includes a section, after Bill's solo, where the horns play a transcribed version of a Buddy Tate solo from a 1940 Basie recording, "The World is Mad, Part II."

The jazz community was saddened to learn of Buddy's passing on February 10, 2001 in Chandler, Arizona. He was the last link to the stellar Count Basie Band of the late 1940's, where he shared the stage with Lester Young and Sweets Edison.

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released March 7, 2021

Buddy Tate - tenor sax, flute, vocals
Hendrik Meurkens - vibraphone, vocals
Otto Weiss - piano
Dieter Gützkow - bass
Torsten Zwingenberger - drums

Recorded live on April 15, 1986 at the Quasimodo, Berlin, Germany.

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Buddy Tate Sherman, Texas

George Holmes "Buddy" Tate (February 22, 1913 – February 10, 2001) was a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.
He joined Count Basie in 1939 and stayed with him until 1948.
After his period with Basie ended, he worked on his own, starting in 1953 in Harlem. His group worked at the Celebrity Club from 1953 to 1974.
In the late 1970s, he co-led a band with Paul Quinichette and worked with Benny Goodman.
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