He claimed to never have had a formal drum lesson, that he never practiced. It is doubtful that he could read music. Headliner at Age 4 So who was Buddy Rich? Born in 1917, he was a child prodigy — ...

Buddy Rich was one of jazz‘s most iconic drummers, a vaudevillian boy wonder who helped power the swing era and led his own big bands in the late 1940s and from the late 1960s on. We‘ll hear ...

Arguably the greatest jazz drummer of all time, the legendary Buddy Rich exhibited his love for music through the dedication of his life to the art. His was a career that spanned seven decades, ...

Buddy Rich was one of jazz‘s most iconic drummers, a vaudevillian boy wonder who helped power the swing era and led his own big bands in the late 1940s and from the late 1960s on. We‘ll hear ...