Search - Buddy Rich / Lionel Hampton :: Transition

Great Reunion

Michael V. Winterfeldt | Hamburg, Germany | 11/13/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It's one of those albums where basically one track makes the whole album. In this case it's "Ring Dem Bells"

with Hamp driving the rest of his players while Buddy is shuffling along and the only mistake by the producer was to fade the tune out instead of letting the group play many more chorusses, because it was just getting really hot!

Nevertheless, it was a fantastic idea to get the old champs back together again while they were still in top notch form - and you can hear that!"