Buddy Rich biography

Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his technique, power, speed, and ability to improvise.

Buddy Rich was born to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York on September 30, 1917. It was his father who initially realized Buddy's talent for rhythm, when Buddy Rich could keep a steady beat with a drumstick at the age of one. He began playing drums in vaudeville when he was 18 months old, billed as Traps the Drum Wonder. At eleven Buddy Rich was performing as a bandleader. He received no professional drum instruction.

In 1937 Buddy Rich entered jazz with Joe Marsala's group, then played with Bunny Berigan (1938), Artie Shaw (1939), Tommy Dorsey (1939–1942, 1945, 1954–1955), Benny Carter (1942), Harry James (1953–1956), Les Brown, Charlie Ventura, and Jazz at the Philharmonic, as well as leading his own band and performing with all-star groups. For most of the period from 1966 until his death, Buddy Rich led a successful big band in an era when the popularity of big bands had waned from its peak in the 1930s and 40s. His most popular performance was a big band arrangement of West Side Story.

Buddy Rich died April 2, 1987. Reportedly, his last words (replying to a nurse, who asked if anything was bothering him) were: "Yes. country music!" Others say that he responded "country and western music" when asked by the nurse if he had any allergies. Buddy Rich is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld speak on the newly released Seinfeld 5th & 6th season DVDs about Buddy Rich's volcanic temper, and point out three instances where Rich's signature rants were incorporated into the show. In Season 5 Episode 22, The Opposite, George Costanza hurls threats at two noisy movie patrons seated behind him, using the modified quotation, "How about we step outside and I'll show you what it's like!" Seinfeld shares in the commentary how he marvels at how Buddy Rich could insult someone in terms so broad. In Season 6 Episode 24, The Understudy, Frank Costanza quotes his old Korean lover's father, saying "This guy.he's not my kind of guy." The final Buddy Rich reference appeared in Season 9 Episode 157, The Butter Shave, as Jerry deliberately bombs on stage in order to thwart Kenny Bania from "riding his coattails," proclaiming, "Then let's see how he does, up there, without all the assistance!"

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