CBR14Bingo: Minds (I read both of these as I continued my personal psychological study of Buddy Rich’s mind) Buddy Rich is arguably the best drummer to ever live. I was first introduced to his work about a year ago when he was mentioned in a biography of Frank Sinatra I was reading; the two of them had at least one fistfight when they were in Tommy Dorsey’s band together. As I have a fascination with mid-century men with terrible tempers (Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster) I […]
“Buddy Rich once told me that he was the loneliest man in the universe.”
The Torment of Buddy Rich: A Biography by John Minahan
Traps, The Drum Wonder: The Life of Buddy Rich by Mel Torme
