Big Swing Face (Buddy Rich album)

Big Swing Face
Live album by Buddy Rich
Released	June 1967[1]
Recorded	February 22-25 and March 10, 1967 Chez Club, Los Angeles (#all tracks except #3, 11, 16) United Recording, Los Angeles (#3, 11, 16)
Genre	Jazz
Length	36:16
Label	Pacific Jazz PJ-10117
Producer	Richard Bock
Buddy Rich chronology
The Sounds of '66 (1966)The Sounds of '661966 Big Swing Face (1967) The New One! (1967)The New One!1967

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Big Swing Face is a 1967 live album and the second album by Buddy Rich and his 1960s big band. "The Beat Goes On" is a feature for Rich's daughter Cathy, whose vocal performance was overdubbed later at United Recording in Hollywood.^[3] A reissue in 1996 doubles the listing with nine previously unreleased performances from the same engagement at the Chez Club in Hollywood.^[4]

Track listing

LP side A:

1. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" (Lennon and McCartney) – 2:57
2. "Big Swing Face" (Bill Potts) – 5:15
3. "Monitor Theme" (Bernie Baum, Bill Giant, Florence Kaye) – 2:24
4. "Wack Wack" (Isaac "Redd" Holt, Donald Storball, Hysear Don Walker, Jimmy Young) – 3:04
5. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 4:30

LP side B:

1. "Mexicali Nose" (Harry Betts) – 2:49
2. "Willowcrest" (Bob Florence) – 4:55
3. "The Beat Goes On" (Sonny Bono) – 4:40
4. "Bugle Call Rag" (Billy Meyers, Jack Pettis, Elmer Schoebel) – 4:42

Bonus tracks on 1996 CD reissue:

10. "Standing Up in a Hammock" (Potts) – 2:32
11. "Chicago" (Fred Fisher) – 2:47
12. "Lament for Lester" (Jay Corre) – 2:30
13. "Machine" (Bill Reddie) – 3:45
14. "Silver Threads Among the Blues" (Don Piestrup) – 4:40
15. "New Blues" (Piestrup) – 4:38
16. "Old Timey" (Bob Florence) – 3:25
17. "Loose" (Bill Holman) – 4:05
18. "Apples (aka Gino)" (Arthur M. Wiggins) – 2:35

Personnel

• Quinn Davis - alto saxophone
• Ernie Watts - alto saxophone and flute
• Jay Corre, Robert Keller - tenor saxophone and flute
• Marty Flax - baritone saxophone
• Bobby Shew, Yoshito Murakami, Charles Findley, John Scottile - trumpet
• Jim Trimble, John Boice - trombone
• Bill Wimberly - bass trombone
• Richie Resnicoff - guitar
• Ray Starling - piano
• James Gannon - double bass
• Buddy Rich - drums

Production

• Gabor Halmos - artwork, design
• Wally Heider - engineer
• Fred Seligo - photography
• Dean Pratt - producer, liner notes, reissue producer, compilation producer
• Bob Belden - producer, reissue producer, compilation producer
• Richard Bock - producer

References

• LP: (1967) Pacific Jazz ST 20117 (also Fontana STL 5435)
• CD: (1996) Pacific Jazz CDP 7243 8 37989 2 6